Following Kubrick's 1999 loss of life, Spielberg took the drafts and notes still left by Kubrick and his writers and composed a new screenplay based mostly on an before 90-website page story remedy by Ian Watson created below Kubrick's supervision and specifications. Cardboard products were being created of all of the sets of the film, and the lights of them was a substantial endeavor, which took 4 months of electrical wiring.