Childhood’s End

Childhood's End

ARTHUR C. CLARKE’S ‘CHILDHOOD’S END’

08/06/2020

Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End is the example without peer of a highly acclaimed novel that grew from a novella. So successful, in fact, has the novel been that few readers even know of or remember the shorter form from which it came.

Preproduction drawing by Neal Adams. Adams was one of the first people contacted by Phil DeGuere when plans moved ahead on the Universal production of Childhood's End

A NEW BEGINNING FOR “CHILDHOOD’S END”

07/06/2020

Several attempts to adapt Arthur C. Clarke’s novel Childhood’s End into a film or miniseries have been made with varying levels of success. Philip DeGuere developed a script in the late 1970s for Universal and in this interview he gives some details regarding the pre-production of the project.