Movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

• Director: Stanley Kubrick
• Release Date: 1 March 1969 (Hong Kong)
• Writers: Stanley Kubrick (screenplay) & Arthur C. Clarke (screenplay)  
• 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: Frank Miller, who plays the mission control voice, was a member of the US Air Force in real life, and a real mission controller. He was hired because his voice was the most authentic the producers could find for the role. Inexperienced and nervous, he could not keep from tapping his foot during recording sessions, and the tapping sound repeatedly came through on the audio tracks; Stanley Kubrick folded up a towel, put it under Miller’s feet, and told him to tap to his heart’s content.
 

Goofs: Continuity: When Bowman is disconnecting HAL in the logic center, he turns a key and a corresponding clear plastic block slides out. However, when he skips the #1 block in one series and turns the key for the high number in the next series, the #1 block in the previous series slides out.
 

“”2001″ is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well). Evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon’s surface, where yet another monolith is found, one that signals the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and human (Bowman) to reach the monolith placers. The winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be. Written by Larry Cousins”