"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."
– David Bowman (Keir Dullea)

"Still the grandest of all science-fiction movies."
– Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Credits: 2001 Complete Cast and Crew Credits

 

 
Background:
  • 2001 began life as the short story The Sentinel, written by Arthur C. Clarke in 1950
  • Clarke later wrote a novel based on the screenplay for 2001, which was released in July 1968, three months after the film’s debut
  • The HAL-9000 computer originally was named Athena and was supposed to have a female voice.
  • HAL was portrayed as a unique computer, being one of the first artificial intelligence machines that could truly think for itself. In the film, HAL was given control over the day-to-day running of the Jupiter mission spacecraft, the USS Discovery.
  • British actor Nigel Davenport and American actor Martin Balsam both recorded HAL’s dialogue before Kubrick eventually settled on Douglas Rain as the computer’s calm, rational voice.
  • The name HAL is an amalgam of "heuristic" and "algorithmic," the two main processes of learning.
  • Kubrick earned Academy Award® nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay, and won his only Oscar® for Best Special Visual Effects. The film also received a nomination for Best Art Direction
  • In 1984 the sequel film, 2010: The Year We Made Contact, was made

 
Sounds From The Film:

Loading ... Please wait!