Kubrick later came up with the aphorism, “Never let your ego get in the way of a good idea.” 5. And the decision for HAL to kill off most of the crew came from visual-effects supervisor Doug Trumbull, who suggested that this would resolve some loose plot points-an idea the director at first angrily rejected. In another example, the idea that the HAL-9000 supercomputer would discover the astronauts’ plot against him by reading their lips originated as an offhand suggestion by the film’s associate producer, Victor Lyndon. But after paying massively for the big clear Plexi slab, Kubrick decided it didn’t look right-so production designer Tony Masters suggested the featureless black one, which Kubrick approved.
The mysterious black monolith began as a translucent Plexiglas tetrahedron, which ultimately assumed a monolith shape because Plexiglas cools better that way. Some of the film’s most iconic features were decided during production for purely practical reasons. (Credit: Mary Evans/MGM/Polaris/Stanley Kubrick/Ronald Grant/Everett) 4. But Kubrick had fled the scene, causing production to grind to a halt for several days.Īctor Keir Dullea reflected in the lens of the HAL-9000 supercomputer.
When he actually did pass out, Weston, who’d been a mercenary in South Africa, took a minute to recover and then set off to find the director and teach him a lesson-a story originating from Weston himself. In another incident, Kubrick refused to let Weston punch holes in the back of his space helmet, which meant the stuntman was perpetually on the verge of blacking out from carbon-dioxide poisoning as he engaged in complicated maneuvers while hanging high above the camera. This almost resulted in a serious accident when individual strands of Weston’s sole cable broke under his weight. An Angry Stuntman Chased Kubrick off the Setĭuring production, Kubrick at first refused to let spacewalking stuntman Bill Weston wear a second cable for safety, although he was 30 feet above a hard concrete studio floor. (Credit: Mary Evans/MGM/Ronald Grant/Everett) 3. Stanley decided to take his chances with the universe.” In the end, Mariner’s pictures showed a harsh, cratered, moon-like surface, which immediately tamped down the hope that intelligent life-or indeed, any life-might exist on that planet.Ī behind-the-scenes shot of Stanley Kubrick on set. “How the underwriters managed to compute the premium, I can’t imagine,” Clarke wrote wonderingly, “but the figure they quoted was slightly astronomical and the project was dropped. Just before NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft passed Mars in July 1965, a worried Kubrick attempted to take out an insurance policy with Lloyd’s of London-in case the discovery of extraterrestrial life ruined the plot he was then working on with science-fiction writer Arthur C. Though Ridley Scott’s affiliates are involved, if the Syfy network produces a crap series, the fans will decide on its canonicity.VIDEO: Why is Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ significant? Take a journey through the history of science fiction and examine some of the cultural influences behind Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 visionary film ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ including the Vietnam War, the civil-rights movement and space exploration. Clarke’s 3001: The Final Odyssey has excited fans, and may be well recieved as canon. Talks of 3001 as a film network series, based on Arthur C. Since the 1984 film adaption 2010: The Year We Make Contact was generally well received, there has been little to no objection in receiving Peter Hayms’ 2010 as canon. In 3001: The Final Odyssey, David Bowman and HAL 9000 are introduced as Halman-a being that represents their identities merged as one.Ĭontinuity of 2001, is Arthur C. Clarke's explanation was likely moved by the creative differences that were finalized in the 2001 film, and as a way to cover all inconsistencies and contradictions for the sake of his fan-base. Clarke makes it clear that the plots of the movies and books do not necessarily follow a linear arc, and should be viewed as being in parallel universes, or as variations of the main theme. In the two movies, Bowman is played by Keir Dullea.
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He becomes a non corporeal entity in 2010: Odyssey Two the novel, and in the movie adaption, 2010: The Year We Make Contact. He is the main protagonist of 2001: A Space Odyssey in both the novel and film. 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY - Trailer REMASTEREDĭavid Bowman is a central character who appears throughout the science-fiction Space Odyssey series.
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