1982 Movie With A 2010 Sequel

1984 scientific discipline fiction movie directed by Peter Hyams

This article is near the 1984 film. For the 1982 novel, encounter 2010: Odyssey 2.

2010: The Year We Make Contact
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Peter Hyams
Screenplay by	Peter Hyams
Based on	2010: Odyssey 2 by Arthur C. Clarke
Produced by	Peter Hyams
Starring	Roy Scheider John Lithgow Helen Mirren Bob Balaban Keir Dullea
Cinematography	Peter Hyams
Edited past	James Mitchell Mia Goldman
Music by	David Shire
Production company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	MGM/UA Entertainment Co.
Release appointment	December seven, 1984 (1984-12-07)
Running time	116 minutes[ane]
Country	United States
Language	English
Upkeep	United states$28 million[2]
Box office	US$40.4 million (North America) [3]

2010: The Year We Make Contact (abbreviated on-screen as simply 2010 ) is a 1984 American scientific discipline fiction moving picture written, produced, shot and directed by Peter Hyams. It is a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Infinite Odyssey and is based on Arthur C. Clarke's 1982 sequel novel, 2010: Odyssey Ii. The film stars Roy Scheider, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban and John Lithgow, along with Keir Dullea and Douglas Rain of the cast of the previous picture.

Plot [edit]

Nine years after the failure of the Discovery I mission to Jupiter in 2001, in which the crew of five including mission commander David Bowman were lost, an international dispute causes tension between the United States and the Soviet Union while both nations prepare space missions to make up one's mind what happened to the Discovery. The Soviet spacecraft Leonov volition exist ready a yr before the American Discovery Two, only the Soviets demand Americans to board the Discovery and reactivate the send's sentient computer, HAL 9000, evidently responsible for the disaster. Upon learning that Discovery will crash into Jupiter'due south moon Io before the American mission can launch, Dr. Heywood Floyd, Discovery designer Walter Curnow, and HAL 9000's creator Dr. Chandra are permitted to join the Soviet mission.

Arriving at Jupiter, the crew detects organic molecules on Jupiter's icy moon Europa. A probe sent to investigate is destroyed by an energy burst, which the Soviets believe to be electrostatic build-upward, but which Floyd suspects is a alarm to stay away from Europa. Finding Discovery adrift in orbit over Io, Curnow reactivates the send, and Chandra restarts HAL. Cosmonaut Max Brailovsky investigates the nearby giant Monolith at which Bowman disappeared while exploring, merely the Monolith destroys his EVA pod with a burst of energy, killing him.

On Earth, Dave Bowman, now an incorporeal being, appears through his former married woman's tv to say farewell, telling her that "something wonderful" is going to happen. He and then visits his comatose mother in a nursing home. She briefly awakens in delight at her son's presence, before dying peacefully.

Chandra discovers the reasons for HAL'southward malfunction: the National Security Council ordered HAL to conceal information almost the Monolith from the Discovery 's crew and programmed him to complete the mission alone; this conflicted with HAL's programming of open, accurate processing of data, causing the figurer equivalent of a paranoid mental breakdown. When Bowman and copilot Frank Poole discussed deactivating the malfunctioning calculator, HAL judged that the human crew was endangering the mission, and terminated them. Although the NSC's club bears his signature, Floyd angrily denies having known of it.

Back on Earth, the United States and the Soviet Spousal relationship are on the brink of war. The Americans are ordered to leave the Leonov and move to the Discovery, with no further advice betwixt the crews. Both ships program to go out Jupiter in several weeks' time, simply Bowman appears to Floyd, and says that anybody must leave within two days. Floyd confers with the skeptical Soviet captain, Tanya Kirbuk. The crews agree to cooperate for an emergency difference when the Monolith of a sudden disappears, and a growing blackness spot appears in Jupiter's atmosphere. Neither ship has the fuel to reach Earth if they exit ahead of schedule, so the ships are docked together, and placed nether the control of HAL 9000. Discovery 's remaining fuel will be burned to propel the Leonov away from Jupiter; and then Discovery will be undocked and left behind.

HAL determines that the spot is a vast group of Monoliths, multiplying exponentially and altering Jupiter's density and chemical composition. He suggests canceling the launch in order to report the changes occurring to Jupiter. Floyd worries that HAL will prioritize his mission over the humans' survival, but Chandra admits to the computer that there is a danger, and that Discovery may be destroyed. HAL thanks Chandra for telling him the truth, and ensures the Leonov 'due south escape. Before Discovery is destroyed, Bowman asks HAL to transmit a priority message, assuring him that they will presently be together. The Monoliths engulf Jupiter, which undergoes nuclear fusion, becoming a new star. HAL transmits this bulletin to World:

ALL THESE WORLDS
ARE YOURS EXCEPT
EUROPA
Effort NO
LANDING There
USE THEM TOGETHER
Employ THEM IN PEACE

The Leonov survives the shockwave from Jupiter's ignition, and returns dwelling house. Floyd narrates how the new star's miraculous appearance, and the message from a mysterious conflicting power, inspire the American and Soviet leaders to seek peace. Under its infant lord's day, icy Europa transforms into a humid jungle, covered with life, and watched over by a Monolith.

Cast [edit]

• Roy Scheider as Heywood Floyd
• John Lithgow as Walter Curnow
• Helen Mirren as Tanya Kirbuk
• Bob Balaban as R. Chandra
• Keir Dullea equally Dave Bowman
• Douglas Rain equally the voice of HAL 9000
• Madolyn Smith as Caroline Floyd
• Dana Elcar equally Dimitri Moisevitch
• Taliesin Jaffe as Christopher Floyd
• James McEachin every bit Victor Milson
• Natasha Shneider every bit Irina Yakunina
• Vladimir Skomarovsky as Yuri Svetlanov
• Mary Jo Deschanel as Betty Fernandez, Bowman's widow
• Elya Baskin as Proverb Brailovsky
• Savely Kramarov equally Vladimir Rudenko
• Oleg Rudnik as Vasili Orlov

In improver, groundwork crew members on the Leonov are played by Victor Steinbach and Jan Triska, while Herta Ware briefly appears as Bowman'southward mother. Candice Bergen, credited as "Olga Mallsnerd", voices the SAL 9000.

Arthur C. Clarke, author of the novels for 2001 and 2010, appears as a man on a park bench feeding pigeons exterior the White Business firm (visible in the letterboxed and widescreen versions). In improver, a Fourth dimension magazine embrace about the American–Soviet tension is briefly shown, in which the President of the United States is portrayed by Clarke and the Soviet Premier by the 2001 picture's writer, producer and director, Stanley Kubrick.

Production [edit]

Development and filming [edit]

When Clarke published his novel 2010: Odyssey Ii in 1982, he telephoned Stanley Kubrick, and jokingly said, "Your job is to stop everyone [from] making it [into a motion-picture show] and so I won't be bothered."^[4] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer later worked out a contract to make a motion-picture show adaptation, but Kubrick had no interest in directing it. However, Peter Hyams was interested and contacted both Clarke and Kubrick for their blessings:

I had a long conversation with Stanley and told him what was going on. If it met with his approval, I would do the film; and if it didn't, I wouldn't. I certainly would non have idea of doing the flick if I had not gotten the approving of Kubrick. He's ane of my idols; but one of the greatest talents that'due south always walked the Earth. He more or less said, 'Sure. Go do it. I don't care.' And another fourth dimension he said, 'Don't be afraid. Simply go practice your ain movie.'^[4]

While he was writing the screenplay in 1983, Hyams (in Los Angeles) began communicating with Clarke (in Sri Lanka) via the then-pioneering medium of electronic mail using Kaypro 2 computers and directly-punch modems. They discussed the planning and production of the moving-picture show nigh daily using this method, and their informal, oftentimes humorous correspondence was published in 1984 as The Odyssey File. As it focuses on the screenwriting and pre-production process, the book terminates on February 7, 1984, just earlier the motion picture is about to kickoff filming, though information technology does include 16 pages of behind-the-scenes photographs from the picture show.^{[5] [6]}

Principal photography on the film began in February 1984 for a 71-day schedule. The majority of the moving-picture show was shot on MGM'southward soundstages in Culver City, California, with the exception of a week of location piece of work in Washington, D.C., Rancho Palos Verdes, California, and at the Very Large Array in New United mexican states.^[seven] Originally, Hyams had intended to film the opening scene at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, home of the world'south largest radio telescope, but afterward visiting there in 1983, he told Clarke that the site was "truly filthy" and unsuitable for filming.^[5]

Music [edit]

Initially, Tony Banks, keyboardist for the band Genesis, was commissioned to do the soundtrack for 2010: The Year Nosotros Make Contact. Notwithstanding, Banks' material was rejected^[8] and David Shire was then selected to compose the soundtrack, which he co-produced along with Craig Huxley. The soundtrack album was released by A&M Records.

Dissimilar many moving picture soundtracks upwards until and so, the soundtrack for 2010: The Year We Make Contact was equanimous for and played mainly using digital synthesizers. These included the Synclavier by the New England Digital visitor and a Yamaha DX1. Merely two compositions on the soundtrack album feature a symphony orchestra. Shire and Huxley were and so impressed past the realistic sound of the Synclavier that they placed a disclaimer in the album'south liner notes stating "No re-synthesis or sampling was employed on the Synclavier."^[nine]

Andy Summers, guitarist for the ring The Police, performed a track entitled "2010", which was a mod new-wave popular version of Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra (which had been the principal theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey). Though Summers' recording was included on the soundtrack album and released as a unmarried, it was not used in the picture. For the B-side to the single, Summers recorded another 2010-based track entitled "To Hal and Back", though this appeared in neither the film nor the soundtrack anthology.^{[10] [11]}

Release [edit]

Box office [edit]

2010: The Year We Make Contact debuted at number 2 at the N American box office, taking $vii,393,361 for its opening weekend.^[12] It was held off from the top spot by Beverly Hills Cop, which became that year's highest-grossing pic in North America. During its second week, the film faced competition from two other new sci-fi films; John Carpenter'due south Starman and David Lynch'due south Dune,^[xiii] but ultimately outgrossed both by the end of its domestic theatrical run. Information technology finished with but over $40 million at the domestic box part and was the 17th-highest-grossing film in North America to exist released in 1984.^[14]

Comic book [edit]

In 1984, Marvel Comics published a 48-page comic book adaptation of the film by writer J. M. DeMatteis and artists Joe Barney, Larry Hama and Tom Palmer. It was published both every bit a unmarried book in Curiosity Super Special #37^[xv] and as a ii-issue miniseries.^[16]

Dwelling media [edit]

2010: The Twelvemonth We Make Contact was first released on home video and laserdisc in 1985, and on DVD (R1) in 1998 by MGM. It was re-issued (with different artwork) in September 2000. Both releases are presented with the soundtrack remastered in Dolby 5.1 surroundings sound and in the original 2.35:1 aspect ratio, though a packaging error appears on the 2000 Warner release, challenge that the picture show is presented in anamorphic widescreen when, in reality, it is simply 4:3 letterboxed and not anamorphic (the MGM version of the DVD makes no such claim). The R1 and R4 releases also include the motion picture trailer and a 10-minute backside-the-scenes featurette 2010: The Odyssey Continues (made at the time of the film's product), though this is not available in other regions.

The film was released on Blu-ray Disc on April seven, 2009. It features a BD-25 single-layer presentation, now in high-definition 16:9 (2.xl:1) widescreen with 1080p/VC-1 video and English Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Surroundings audio. In all regions, the disc as well includes the movie's original "making of" promotional featurette (as above) and theatrical trailer in standard definition as extras.

Reception [edit]

Disquisitional reception [edit]

Disquisitional reaction to 2010: The Year We Make Contact was generally positive. It holds a 66% "Fresh" rating with an average score of five.78/10 on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 35 reviews. The critical consensus reads, "2010 struggles to escape from the shadow of its monolithic predecessor, but offers brainy take a chance in a more straightforward voyage through the cosmos."^[17] Roger Ebert gave 2010: The Year Nosotros Brand Contact iii stars out of iv, writing that "It doesn't friction match the poetry and the mystery of the original film, but it does continue the story, and it offers sound, pragmatic explanations for many of the strange and visionary things in 2001." Ebert also wrote it "has an ending that is infuriating, not only in its simplicity, simply in its inadequacy to fulfill the sense of anticipation, the sense of wonder we felt at the end of 2001". He concluded, withal: "And yet the truth must be told: This is a practiced movie. Once we've drawn our lines, one time we've made information technology admittedly clear that 2001 continues to stand admittedly lone as one of the greatest movies ever made, in one case we have freed 2010 of the comparisons with Kubrick'south masterpiece, what we are left with is a skilful-looking, sharp-edged, entertaining, exciting space opera".^[18]

James Berardinelli also gave the picture 3 stars out of four, writing that "2010 continues 2001 without ruining it. The greatest danger faced by filmmakers helming a sequel is that a bad installment will in some style sour the experience of watching the previous movie. This does not happen here. Near paradoxically, 2010 may be unnecessary, but it is all the same a worthwhile effort."^[19] Vincent Canby gave 2010: The Twelvemonth We Make Contact a lukewarm review, calling it "a perfectly acceptable though non really comparable sequel" that "is without wit, which is not to say that it is witless. A lot of intendance has gone into it, simply it has no satirical substructure to match that of the Kubrick film, and which was eventually responsible for that film's standing popularity."^[20]

Colin Greenland reviewed 2010 for Imagine magazine, calling it "a tense infinite drama with excellent performances from Helen Mirren and John Lithgow, and glorious special effects. For everyone who was mystified by 2001."^[21]

Awards and nominations [edit]

2010: The Yr We Make Contact was nominated for five Academy Awards:^{[22] [23]}

• Best Fine art Direction (Fine art Direction: Albert Brenner; Set Ornament: Rick Simpson)
• Best Costume Pattern (Patricia Norris)
• Best Makeup (Michael Westmore)
• Best Sound (Michael J. Kohut, Aaron Rochin, Carlos Delarios and Cistron Cantamessa)
• Best Visual Effects (Richard Edlund, Neil Krepela, George Jenson and Marker Stetson)

The film was also nominated for three Saturn Awards; Best Science Fiction Moving-picture show, Best Costumes (Patricia Norris), and Best Special Effects (Richard Edlund).^[24] Information technology won the Hugo Laurels for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1985.^[25]

References [edit]

1. ^ "2010". British Lath of Moving-picture show Nomenclature. Archived from the original on December 16, 2014. Retrieved Dec 15, 2014.
2. ^ Hughes, Marker (November 8, 2014). "Superlative 10 Best Space Travel Films Of All Time". Forbes.com. p. 1. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
3. ^ "2010 (1984)". Box Role Mojo . Retrieved February xviii, 2011.
4. ^ ^{a b} LoBrutto, Vincent (1997). Stanley Kubrick: A Biography. D.I. Fine Books. p. 456. ISBN978-1-55611-492-2 . Retrieved March 21, 2022.
5. ^ ^{a b} Arthur C. Clarke and Peter Hyams. The Odyssey File. Ballantine Books, 1984.
6. ^ Rothman, David H. (November 16, 1982). "The Arthur C. Clarke chapter of The Silicon Jungle". DavidRothman.com. Archived from the original on September 19, 2011. Retrieved February 18, 2011.
7. ^ 2010: The Odyssey Continues (video). 1984.
8. ^ Tony Banks interview, WorldOfGenesis.com
9. ^ 2010 Official Soundtrack Album (cat: AMA 5038). Liner notes: All of the original music, with the exception of "New Worlds" and the second half of "New Worlds Theme" was entirely synthesized using the New England Digital Synclavier II, Yamaha DX-1 and Roland Jupiter-viii. The Blaster Beam was used on "Reactivating Discovery". No resynthesis or sampling was employed on the Synclavier. All electronic music was recorded with an Amek 3500 mixing desk and Otari MTR 90 24-track recorder and remixed to a Mitsubishi Ten-80 digital recorder.
10. ^ Andy Summers "2010" (AM 2704)
11. ^ "Andy Summers - 2010". Discogs.
12. ^ "Weekend Box Function Results for December seven-9, 1984 - Box Office Mojo". boxofficemojo.com.
13. ^ "Weekend Box Part Results for December 14-16, 1984 - Box Function Mojo". boxofficemojo.com.
14. ^ "1984 Yearly Box Office Results - Box Office Mojo". boxofficemojo.com.
15. ^ "GCD :: Upshot :: Marvel Super Special #37". comics.org.
16. ^ 2010 at the One thousand Comics Database
17. ^ "2010: The Year We Make Contact Motion picture Reviews, Pictures". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved February eighteen, 2011.
18. ^ "2010". RogerEbert.suntimes.com. Jan 1, 1984. Archived from the original on May 13, 2012. Retrieved February 18, 2011.
19. ^ "2010: A Film Review by James Berardinelli". Reelviews.net. Retrieved February 18, 2011.
20. ^ Canby, Vincent (December vii, 1984). "Movie Review - 2010 - '2010,' PURSUES THE MYSTERY OF '2001'". The New York Times . Retrieved February xviii, 2011.
21. ^ Greenland, Colin (Apr 1985). "Fantasy Media". Imagine (review). TSR Hobbies (United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland), Ltd. (25): 47.
22. ^ "The 57th Academy Awards (1985) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org . Retrieved October thirteen, 2011.
23. ^ "2010 — Awards". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2009. Archived from the original on June 4, 2009. Retrieved January ane, 2009.
24. ^ "Academy of Scientific discipline Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA". imdb.com.
25. ^ "1985 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. Archived from the original on May 7, 2011.

External links [edit]

• 2010 at IMDb
• 2010 at the TCM Movie Database
• 2010 at AllMovie
• 2010 at Box Role Mojo
• 2010 at Rotten Tomatoes

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact

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