Complex sentence: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 British-American science fiction drama epic film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, and written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, partially inspired by Clarke's novella "The Sentinel".
Split into simpler sentences: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay, written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, was partially inspired by Clarke's short story "The Sentinel".