"2001: A Space Odyssey (comics) 2001: A Space Odyssey is the name of an oversized American comic book adaptation of the 1968 as well as a ten–issue monthly series which expanded upon the concepts presented in the Stanley Kubrick film and the novel by Arthur C. Clarke. Jack Kirby wrote and pencilled both the adaptation and the series, which were published by Marvel Comics beginning in 1976. The adaptation was part of the agreement of Kirby's return to Marvel. Marvel published the adaptation in its then-common treasury edition format featuring tabloid-sized pages of roughly twice the size of a standard"
"2001: A Space Travesty 2001: A Space Travesty is a 2000 comedy film directed by Allan A. Goldstein and starring Leslie Nielsen. The film has a few sequences parodying elements of """", but is not focused on parodying ""Odyssey"". Marshal Richard ""Dick"" Dix, a special detective, saves a fast food chain restaurant from a terrorist hostage situation, much to the displeasure of the police chief. He drives away and back to the police station, where he meets his boss, who is with a police worker, Cassandra Menage. She retells her experience of the cloning of the President of the United"
"Despite mixed reviews from critics at that time, ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" gradually gained popularity and earned $31 million worldwide by the end of 1972. Today, it is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential films ever made, and is a staple on All Time Top 10 lists. Baxter describes the film as ""one of the most admired and discussed creations in the history of cinema"", and Steven Spielberg has referred to it as ""the big bang of his film making generation"". For biographer Vincent LoBrutto it ""positioned Stanley Kubrick as a pure artist ranked among"
"its scientific realism, pioneering special effects, and provocatively ambiguous imagery and sound in place of traditional narrative techniques. Despite receiving mixed reviews upon release, ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" is today thought by some critics to be one of the greatest films ever made and is widely regarded as one of the best science fiction films of all time. It was nominated for four Academy Awards, and received one for visual effects. It also won the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Best Director and Best Film awards of 1968. In 1991, ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" was deemed culturally significant by the"
"The One (2001 film) The One is a 2001 American science fiction-martial arts film written and directed by James Wong and starring Jet Li, Delroy Lindo, Jason Statham and Carla Gugino. The film was released in the United States on November 2, 2001. Gabriel Yulaw (Jet Li), once an officer of the ""Multiverse Authority"", an agency that polices interdimensional travel via wormholes, seeks to hunt down all variations of himself in alternate universes. By killing all 124 of his other selves (becoming the last version) and absorbing their life energies, he believes he will become an immortal godlike being called"
"also treats the film throughout as effectively a collaboration between Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg. Other scholarly treatments of Kubrick largely ignore the film. All of Stanley Kubrick's films from ""Paths of Glory"" until the end of his career, except for ""The Shining"", were nominated for Academy Awards or Golden Globe Awards, in various categories. ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" received numerous technical awards, including a BAFTA Award for cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth and an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, which Kubrick (as director of special effects on the film) received. This was Kubrick's only personal Academy Award win among 13"
"from ""2001"" as a ""shot-for-shot duplication of ""Road to the Stars"""". Specific comparisons of shots from the two films have been analyzed by the filmmaker Alessandro Cima. A 1994 article in ""American Cinematographer"" says, ""When Stanley Kubrick made ""2001: a Space Odyssey"" in 1968, he claimed to have been first to fly actor/astronauts on wires with the camera on the ground, shooting vertically while the actor's body covered the wires"" but observes that Klushantsev had preceded him in this. Road to the Stars Road to the Stars ( ) is a 1957 Soviet film directed by Pavel Klushantsev. It combines"
"and events including: ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" had an exclusive run locally at Seattle Cinerama for nearly years following its original release in the fall of 1968. In 2001, Warner Brothers chose the Seattle Cinerama as the theater in which to premiere the newly restored 70mm print of Stanley Kubrick's ""2001: A Space Odyssey."" The film opened on October 5, 2001, and eventually opened in other cities around North America the following month. In 2012, Paul Allen himself paid for a new 70mm print of Stanley Kubrick's ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" to be produced for the first annual Cinerama Science"
"by the work of astronomer Richard Berendzen, in particular, Berendzen's audiobook ""Pulp Physics"". He is also an admirer of Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov. He has always admired science. His favorite movie of all time is 2001: A Space Odyssey. ""Because that movie, what it presents to you, can’t be articulated in any other form than as a movie,"" he said. Mike Cahill (director) Mike Cahill (born July 5, 1979) is an American film director and screenwriter. Mike Cahill was born in New Haven, Connecticut on July 5, 1979. His first forays into filmmaking were with Fisher-Price and VHS camcorders"
"Space Odyssey The ""Space Odyssey"" series is a series of science fiction novels by the writer Arthur C. Clarke. Two of the novels have been made into feature films, released in 1968 and 1984 respectively. Two of Clarke's early short stories may also be considered part of the series. Short stories: Novels: Comic books: It was reported on Yahoo Entertainment in 2000 that M.G.M. and Tom Hanks were in discussions regarding turning both ""2061: Odyssey Three"" and ""3001: The Final Odyssey"" into movies (Hanks would reportedly play Frank Poole in the ""3001"" film). An update in 2001 stated that there"
"film's ""Discovery One"", ""perhaps the most thoroughly and accurately researched film in screen history with respect to aerospace engineering"". Several technical advisers were hired for ""2001"", some of whom were recommended by co-screenwriter Arthur C. Clarke, who himself had a background in aerospace. Advisors included Marshall Spaceflight Center engineer Frederick I. Ordway III, who worked on the film for two years, and I. J. Good, whom Kubrick consulted on supercomputers because of Good's authorship of treatises such as ""Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine"" and ""Logic of Man and Machine"". Dr. Marvin Minsky, of MIT, was the main artificial intelligence"
"Race to Space Race to Space is a 2001 American family drama film. The film was shot on location at Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach and Edwards AFB in cooperation with NASA and the U.S. Air Force. The film takes place during the 1960s space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Dr. Wilhelm von Huber (James Woods), a top NASA scientist, relocates to Cape Canaveral with his 12-year-old son, Billy (Alex D. Linz). Their relationship has become strained in the wake of the recent death of Billy's mother, and the ever-widening gap between father and son has"
"""hugely inspirational"", labeling Kubrick as ""the filmmaker's filmmaker"". Sydney Pollack refers to it as ""groundbreaking"", and William Friedkin states ""2001"" is ""the grandfather of all such films"". George Lucas provided a high appraisal of Kubrick's direction of the film stating: ""Stanley Kubrick made the ultimate science fiction movie, and it is going to be very hard for someone to come along and make a better movie, as far as I'm concerned. On a technical level, it can be compared, but personally I think that '2001' is far superior."" At the 2007 Venice film festival, director Ridley Scott stated he believed"
"it would have to be pretty special for me to like it. Even with that this is still not even that good of a spoof movie making it even harder to watch."" Richard Scheib from ""Moria.co"" also gave the film a very poor review, nominating it the ""Worst Film of 2001"". ""2001: A Space Travesty"" currently holds only 16% audience approval on Rotten Tomatoes. 2001: A Space Travesty 2001: A Space Travesty is a 2000 comedy film directed by Allan A. Goldstein and starring Leslie Nielsen. The film has a few sequences parodying elements of """", but is not focused"
"innovation in technique."" While ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" had featured ""revolutionary effects,"" and ""The Shining"" would later feature heavy use of the Steadicam, ""Barry Lyndon"" saw a considerable number of sequences shot ""without recourse to electric light."" Cinematography was overseen by director of photography John Alcott (who won an Oscar for his work), and is particularly noted for the technical innovations that made some of its most spectacular images possible. To achieve photography without electric lighting ""[f]or the many densely furnished interior scenes ... meant shooting by candlelight,"" which is known to be difficult in still photography, ""let alone with"
"Ghosts of the Abyss Ghosts of the Abyss is a 2003 documentary film released by Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media. It was directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron after his 1997 Oscar-winning film ""Titanic"". During August and September 2001, Cameron and a group of scientists staged an expedition to the wreck of the RMS ""Titanic"", and dived in Russian deep-submersibles to obtain more detailed images than anyone had before. With the help of two small, purpose-built remotely operated vehicles, nicknamed ""Jake"" and ""Elwood"", the audience too can see inside the ""Titanic"", and with the help of CGI, audiences"
"written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. 2001 is regarded as the seminal entry in the science-fiction genre as it influenced several later entries. Steven Spielberg, one of the genre's most well-known figures aptly called 2001, 'the big bang of science-fiction.' This movie was groundbreaking in the quality of its visual effects, in its realistic portrayal of space travel, and in the epic and transcendent scope of its story. Science fiction movies that followed this film would enjoy increasingly larger budgets and ever improving special effects. Clarke has told of screening earlier science-fiction films for Kubrick, and Kubrick pronouncing them"
"Space Odyssey (TV series) Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets (released as Voyage to the Planets and Beyond in the United States) is a 2004 British fictional documentary about a manned voyage through the solar system. ""Space Odyssey"" premiered in 2004 and was made by the BBC. It was written and directed by Joe Ahearne and produced by Christopher Riley, who was presented with the 2005 Sir Arthur Clarke Award for Best TV & Radio Presentation. The story is set at an unspecified time in the future, though in the accompanying book, the mission's chief science officer recalls reading Arthur"
"Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is a 2014 American science documentary television series. The show is a follow-up to the 1980 television series """", which was presented by Carl Sagan on the Public Broadcasting Service and is considered a milestone for scientific documentaries. This series was developed to bring back the foundation of science to network television at the height of other scientific-based television series and films. The show is presented by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who, as a young high school student, was inspired by Sagan. Among the executive producers are Seth MacFarlane, whose financial investment"
"the ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" movie ending rather than the novel. After finding out that ""Discovery""s orbit is failing, a joint Soviet-US mission (including Heywood Floyd) travels to Jupiter aboard the spacecraft ""Alexei Leonov"" to intercept and board ""Discovery"" believing that it harbours many of the answers to the mysteries surrounding the 2001 mission. ""Leonov"" docks with ""Discovery"", reactivates the on-board systems, and stabilizes its orbit. Hal's creator, Dr. Chandra, is sent to reactivate the HAL 9000 computer and gather any data he can regarding the previous mission. Later on, an apparition of Dave Bowman appears, warning Floyd that ""Leonov"""
"Cosmic Odyssey (documentary) Cosmic Odyssey is a 2002 documentary television series about the cosmos, created by Avanti Pictures, narrated by William Shatner, and produced by Soapbox Entertainment for The Discovery Channel. In 2003, Schlessinger Media released the series in VHS video format. As of 2007, the series is syndicated on The Science Channel. ""...""Cosmic Odyssey"" tells the stories behind the science of astronomy in an informative and entertaining way. Fast-paced and visually rich, viewers journey to exotic destinations within our solar system and beyond! From moons and planets to comets and asteroids, this series features scientists on the cutting edge"
"A Space Odyssey"" has been analyzed and interpreted by professional critics and theorists, amateur writers and science fiction fans. Peter Kramer in his monograph for BFI analyzing the film summarized the diverse interpretations as ranging from those who saw it as darkly apocalyptic in tone to those who saw it as an optimistic reappraisal of the hopes of mankind and humanity. Questions about ""2001"" range from uncertainty about its implications for humanity's origins and destiny in the universe to interpreting elements of the film's more enigmatic scenes, such as the meaning of the monolith, or the fate of astronaut David"
"about everything were necessary in order to undermine your built-in resistance to the poetical concept"". Upon release in 1968, ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" was not an immediate hit among critics, who faulted its lack of dialog, slow pacing, and seemingly impenetrable storyline. The film appeared to defy genre convention, much unlike any science-fiction movie before it, and clearly different from any of Kubrick's earlier films or stories. Kubrick was particularly outraged by a scathing review from Pauline Kael, who called it ""the biggest amateur movie of them all"", with Kubrick doing ""really every dumb thing he ever wanted to do""."
"asked by Eric Nordern in Kubrick's interview with ""Playboy"" if ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" was a religious film, Kubrick elaborated: I will say that the God concept is at the heart of ""2001"" but not any traditional, anthropomorphic image of God. I don't believe in any of Earth's monotheistic religions, but I do believe that one can construct an intriguing scientific definition of God, once you accept the fact that there are approximately 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone, that each star is a life-giving sun and that there are approximately 100 billion galaxies in just the visible universe."
"Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (originally titled as 2004: A Light Knight's Odyssey) is a 2010 animated educational sci-fi adventure film, written by Harry 'Doc' Kloor and directed by Kloor and Dan St. Pierre, as a science fiction film that takes the viewer on an atomic adventure in space. The voice cast originally included Christian Slater, John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Michael York, and James Earl Jones, but the cast changed in 2008, reflecting a new script that detailed a host of new discoveries made by the ""Cassini–Huygens"" mission to"
"Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace is a 1999 American epic space opera written and directed by George Lucas, produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the first installment in the ""Star Wars"" prequel trilogy and stars Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Ian McDiarmid, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Pernilla August, and Frank Oz. The film is set 32 years before the original film, and follows Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi as they protect Queen Amidala in hopes of securing"
"Ocean's Eleven Ocean's Eleven is a 2001 American heist film directed by Steven Soderbergh, and a remake of the 1960 Rat Pack film of the same name. It features an ensemble cast, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Andy García, and Julia Roberts. The film was a success at the box office and with critics, and was the fifth highest-grossing film of 2001 with $450 million. Soderbergh directed two sequels, ""Ocean's Twelve"" in 2004 and ""Ocean's Thirteen"" in 2007, which make up the ""Ocean's Trilogy"". ""Ocean's 8"", a spin-off with an all-female lead cast, was released in"
"Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure is an IMAX film about the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton between 1914 and 1917. Directed by George Butler, the film was released in February 2001 and was narrated by Kevin Spacey. It documents Shackleton's journey aboard the ""Endurance"" and was the follow-up to Butler's previous film, """". In 1914, Shackleton set out to walk across the whole of Antarctica. While the South Pole had already been discovered, people had yet to make the cross-continent trek on foot. Before making landfall, however, his ship became trapped in the ice-flow of the Weddell"
"""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. ""Sight & Sound"" magazine ranked ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" sixth in the top ten films of all time in its 2002 and 2012 critics' polls editions; it also tied for second place in the magazine's 2012 directors' poll. In 2010, it was named the greatest film of all time by ""The Moving Arts Film Journal"". In an African desert millions of years ago, a tribe of hominids is driven away from its water hole by a rival tribe. They"
"Planet of the Apes (2001 film) Planet of the Apes is a 2001 American science fiction film directed by Tim Burton and starring Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan, Paul Giamatti, and Estella Warren. The sixth film produced in the ""Planet of the Apes"" franchise, it was loosely adapted from Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel of the same name and the 1968 film version. It tells the story of astronaut Leo Davidson crash-landing on a planet inhabited by intelligent apes. The apes treat humans as slaves, but with the help of an ape named Ari, Leo starts"
"Ghosts of Mars Ghosts of Mars is a 2001 American science fiction action horror film written, directed and scored by John Carpenter. The film stars Natasha Henstridge, Ice Cube, Jason Statham, Pam Grier, Clea DuVall, and Joanna Cassidy. The film received negative reviews and was a box office bomb, scoring just a 21% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and earning $14 million at the box office, against a $28 million production budget. Set in the second half of the 22nd century, Mars has been 84% terraformed, allowing humans to walk on the surface without pressure suits. Martian society has become matriarchal,"
"Star Odyssey Star Odyssey (Italian: Sette uomini d'oro nello spazio / Seven Gold Men in Space) is a 1979 Italian film directed by Alfonso Brescia. The film is also known as Space Odyssey, Metallica and Captive Planet in other video markets. This is the fourth and final film in Alfonso Brescia's sci-fi series, with the others being (1977, a.k.a. ""Year Zero War in Space""), Battle of the Stars (1978, a.k.a. ""Battle in Interstellar Space""), and War of the Robots (1978, a.k.a. ""Reactor""). One of four low-budget Italian space opera movies produced in the wake of ""Star Wars"" by Italian director"
"them. It is an ultimate statement of the science fiction film, an awesome realization of the spatial future ... it is a milestone, a landmark for a spacemark, in the art of film."" Louise Sweeney of ""The Christian Science Monitor"" felt that ""2001"" was ""a brilliant intergalactic satire on modern technology. It's also a dazzling 160-minute tour on the Kubrick filmship through the universe out there beyond our earth."" Philip French wrote that the film was ""perhaps the first multi-million-dollar supercolossal movie since D.W. Griffith's ""Intolerance"" fifty years ago which can be regarded as the work of one man ..."