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2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick.The screenplay was written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke.Its plot was inspired by several short stories optioned from Clarke, primarily "The Sentinel" (1951) and "Encounter in the Dawn" (1953). [3]
3001 follows the adventures of Frank Poole, the astronaut killed by the HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey. One millennium later, Poole's freeze-dried body is discovered in the Kuiper belt by a comet-collecting space tug named the Goliath, and revived. Poole is taken home to learn about the Earth in the year 3001.
Dr. Heywood R. Floyd first appears in 2001: A Space Odyssey as being in charge of the mission to investigate the alien Monolith found on the Moon. After the events that took place in 2001: A Space Odyssey, he is the protagonist of 2010: Odyssey Two and 2061: Odyssey Three. Floyd was born in 1958 in America, and by 1999 is chairman of the ...
The monolith appears four times in 2001: A Space Odyssey: on the African savanna, on the Moon, in space orbiting Jupiter, and near Bowman's bed before his transformation. After the first encounter with the monolith, we see the leader of the apes have a quick flashback to the monolith after which he picks up a bone and uses it to smash other bones.
Replicas have been displayed in some places as a tribute to the movie: A black bronze monolith of roughly the same size as the original (about 5m tall) was erected in 1973 on the campus of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa and has been standing ever since. [7] During the Dutch Hackers at Large conference in 2001, a replica monolith was erected.
Universal Pictures announced the movie in late 2024, saying it would be shot using "brand new Imax film technology" and that it would arrive in theaters on July 17, 2026. Here's everything we know ...
Mad has also published thematic collections of their past spoofs, from Oscar-winning films to superhero movies to gangster films. [ 3 ] In September 2020, with Mad having been reduced to a primarily reprint format, Tom Richmond and Desmond Devlin announced that they were crowdfunding a book of newly created movie parodies called Claptrap .
Warning from Space influenced many other Japanese science fiction films, such as Eiji Tsuburaya's Gorath [15] [16] and Ultra Q where Toru Matoba later joined Tsuburaya Productions. [17] The film, along with other 1950s tokusatsu science fiction films, influenced director Stanley Kubrick, who would later direct 2001: A Space Odyssey. [35]