Movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
“2001 is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith here on earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well) Evolution then enabled man to reach the moon’s surface where he finds yet another monolith, one which signals the monolith-placers that we have evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and man (Bowman) to reach the monolith-placers, the winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be. Written by Larry Cousins”
- Director: Stanley Kubrick
- Release Date: 6 April 1968 (USA)
- Run Time: 141 min | 160 min (premiere cut)
- Country: UK , USA
- Genre: Adventure , Mystery , Sci-Fi
Tagline: Let the Awe and Mystery of a Journey Unlike Any Other Begin
Trivia: According to Daniel Richter, British comedian Ronnie Corbett auditioned to play one of the apes at the start of the film.
Goofs: Factual errors: Subtitles on the DVD misspell Clavius as Claivus during the conference.