2010

2010 (1984)

Timing: 1:56 (116 min)

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Release date

1984-12-06

Country

United States

Production

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Genre

Thriller, Science Fiction

Budget

$28 000 000

Revenue

$40 400 657

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Director

Peter Hyams

Actors

Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea, Douglas Rain, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Savely Kramarov, Taliesin Jaffe, James McEachin
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Scenario

Producer

Peter Hyams

Operator

Peter Hyams

Composer

David Shire

Artist

Audition

Penny Perry

Editing

Mia Goldman, James Mitchell
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• Although neither Stanley Kubrick, who directed “2001: A Space Odyssey,” nor Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote “Odyssey Two,” were directly involved in the filming of the film, its creators found an original way to pay tribute to the creators of the first film. If you read the surname of the USSR commander Tatiana Kirbuk backward, you get the surname Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick is also portrayed in “2010” as a Soviet General Secretary, and Arthur C. Clarke is presented as an American President. Together they appear in one of the scenes of the film in a photograph on the cover of a magazine. In addition, Clarke played an episodic role as a man sitting on a bench near the White House.
• According to the plot of the film, the spacecraft “Alexey Leonov” was originally intended to be named after cosmonaut No. 2 German Titov. The name was changed because Titov somehow “lost favor with the leadership.” In this context, it seems strange that the engines of the “Leonov” are named after Andrei Sakharov, who was in opposition to the Soviet regime since the late 60s (this contradiction is resolved in Clarke's novel).
• The role of Dr. Vladimir Rudenko in the film was played by Savely Kramarov, who emigrated to the United States in 1981, and Maxim Braylovsky was played by his friend Ilya Baskin, who had emigrated to the United States earlier.
• The design of "Leonov" in the film influenced the depiction of many spacecraft in science fiction cinema. For example, in the television series "Babylon 5", warships of the "Omega" class were designed based on the "Leonov".
• In the film, Heywood Floyd works on Macintosh and Apple IIc personal computers. This is one of the first instances of Apple Corporation products being depicted in a feature film.
• After filming "2001: A Space Odyssey", Kubrick destroyed the model of the spacecraft to prevent any remakes, but Peter Hyams' team restored it using pictures and frames from the film.
• Although neither Stanley Kubrick, who directed “2001: A Space Odyssey,” nor Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote “Odyssey Two,” took direct part in filming the movie, its creators found an original way to pay tribute to the creators of the first film. If you read the surname of the USSR commander Tatiana Kirbuk backwards, you get the surname Kubrick. Also, Stanley Kubrick is depicted in “2010” as the image of a Soviet General Secretary, and Arthur Clarke is presented as the image of an American president. Together they appear in one of the scenes of the film in a photograph placed on the cover of a magazine. In addition, Clarke played an episodic role as a man sitting on a bench near the White House.
• Although neither Stanley Kubrick, who directed "2001: A Space Odyssey," nor Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote "Odyssey Two," were directly involved in the filming of the movie, its creators found an original way to pay tribute to the creators of the first film. If you read the surname of the USSR commander Tatyana Kirbuk backward, you get the surname Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick is also depicted in "2010" as the image of a Soviet General Secretary, and Arthur Clarke is presented as the image of an American President. Together they appear in one of the film's scenes in a photograph on the cover of a magazine. In addition, Clarke played an episodic role as a man sitting on a bench near the White House.
• The design of the "Leonov" in the film influenced the depiction of many spacecraft in science fiction. For example, in the television series "Babylon 5," warships of the "Omega" class were designed based on the "Leonov."
• During the pre-production phase, the film's director, screenwriter, and producer Peter Hyams regularly consulted with Sir Arthur C. Clarke in Sri Lanka via email on the issues of adapting Clarke's novel. In the years 1983-1984, communication in this way was limited almost exclusively to the academic community, and this was certainly the first time it had been used in cinema. Selected excerpts from this correspondence were published in 1984 in the book "The Odyssey File."
• Stanley Kubrick, the director, producer, and screenwriter of the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey," destroyed all the props and sets so that they would not be used again (at the time, reusing props and sets in other projects was common practice). The model and interiors of the spaceship "Discovery" had to be recreated after carefully studying enlarged frames from the original film. The recreated spaceship was not an exact copy of the original – the corridors were made slightly wider, and the lighting was more natural than in the 1968 film.
• Stanley Kubrick refused to film a sequel to the original 1968 film, and it was decided to turn to Peter Hyams, the creator of the science fiction action film "Outland" (1981). Hyams initially approached the offer without much enthusiasm (fearing that the sequel would inevitably be compared to the original, and that the comparison would favor the latter), but eventually agreed to participate in the project. He even called Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick, as they say, to ask for their “blessing.” It is said that the conversation with Kubrick lasted three hours, and that Kubrick was keenly interested in how Hyams had filmed certain scenes in his previous films. Eventually, Hyams asked if Kubrick approved of him filming a sequel to "2001: A Space Odyssey," and received a positive answer.
• The scene in which Roy Scheider’s character explains the details of docking spaceships to Helen Mirren’s character using a pen floating in zero gravity was not filmed on the first take. Scheider had to stick the pen into a sheet of clear plastic separating him and his co-star, but the sheet would not puncture, and the pen would fall. In the rare cases when the pen did puncture the sheet and actually held, the actor was so visibly surprised (simply because he didn’t expect it) that the take had to be restarted.