EXCLUSIVE: The impression of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A House Odyssey will likely be explored in an upcoming documentary that’s being made in partnership with the legendary filmmaker’s property and the Stanley Kubrick Movie Archive.
Producing the movie titled Monolith are Mike Medavoy and Michael Lee Peterson of Phoenix Footage, Jason Clark of Catchlight Studios, Sean Richard, and Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson of Appian Means. Companions in Sort and TIME Studios are co-financing the movie.
The documentary, anticipated to be launched in 2026, begins manufacturing this month. Helming the movie is Stevan Riley, director of the acclaimed 2015 Brando-themed documentary Take heed to be Marlon.
“2001 is the last word Zeitgeist film,” Riley stated in an announcement. “It was just lately voted the #1 film of all time by movie administrators, and for good purpose. It predicts and speaks to the dramatic technological and societal adjustments that we face as we speak.”
‘2001: A Spacey Odyssey’
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2001: A House Odyssey, written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke (primarily based on Clarke’s quick story The Sentinel) was launched in 1968, and starred Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, with Douglas Rain because the eerie voice of the supercomputer HAL.
“Monolith presents an in-depth exploration of the groundbreaking concepts that emerged from the partnership between Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and their collaborators, lots of which have formed the trendy period,” notes a launch. “The documentary will showcase never-before-seen private letters and narratives between Kubrick and Clarke, and have insightful interviews from modern visionaries and changemakers throughout numerous disciplines who themselves took inspiration from the movie to create the world we stay in as we speak.”
‘2001: A House Odyssey’
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Gillian Hormel and Shelly Tygielski will function govt producers for Companions in Sort, with Dave O’Connor and Loren Hammonds as EPs for TIME Studios. Additionally govt producing will likely be Philip Watson from Appian Means, and Fares I. Fares.
Companions in Sort govt Claudia Cahill, founding father of Omnicom Media Group’s Leisure and Content material Advertising and marketing division, will lead model partnership negotiations and program growth.
“The Companions in Sort Basis, in collaboration with Propper Daley BPI, will spearhead philanthropic social good campaigns and activations impressed by the movie’s key themes,” the discharge says, “together with synthetic intelligence and ethics, human evolution, and the pursuit of data.”
Within the many years since its launch, 2001: A House Odyssey has solely grown in status (in 1969, critic Pauline Kael famously panned it, however she was an outlier). In 2013, Killian Fox wrote within the Guardian, “Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A House Odyssey is, for me, primarily concerning the expertise of complete awe. Sure, you may spend a complete evolutionary stage debating the that means of the interstellar monolith, or whether or not or not the movie is actually an elaborate triple allegory involving Nietzsche and Homer.”
