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Jupiter Ascending is a 2015 space opera film [5] written, directed and co-produced by the Wachowskis.Starring Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis with Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne and Douglas Booth in supporting roles, the film is centered on Jupiter Jones (Kunis), an ordinary cleaning woman, and Caine Wise (Tatum), an interplanetary warrior who informs Jones that her destiny extends beyond Earth.
2010: The Year We Make Contact (titled on-screen as 2010) is a 1984 American science fiction film written, produced, shot, and directed by Peter Hyams.The film is a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and adapts Arthur C. Clarke's 1982 novel 2010: Odyssey Two.
Set in the far future, it follows a group of astronauts and rescue workers guiding the Earth away from an expanding Sun, while attempting to prevent a collision with Jupiter. The film was theatrically released in China on 5 February 2019 (Chinese New Year's Day), by China Film Group Corporation. The film grossed $701 million worldwide.
The story was the inspiration for The Medusa Encounter, the fourth novel in the Venus Prime series by Paul Preuss. The concept of life on Jupiter was explored in the second episode of Carl Sagan 's 1980 PBS series Cosmos , which featured lifeforms similar in concept to those in this story.
Just one day before opposition, Jupiter will be around 367 million miles away from the Earth, the closest the two planets have been in 59 years, according to NASA. The last time that Jupiter was ...
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, reported an approval rating of 33% based on 27 reviews, with an average of 5/10.The website's critical consensus reads, "IO has some big ideas but little idea of how to effectively convey them, leaving viewers with a sci-fi drama whose attractive packaging can't cover its enervating core."
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In the film, Discovery ' s mission is to Jupiter, not Saturn. Kubrick used Jupiter because he and special effects supervisor Douglas Trumbull could not decide on what they considered to be a convincing model of Saturn's rings for the film. [11] Clarke went on to replace Saturn with Jupiter in the novel's sequel 2010: Odyssey Two.