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2001: The Alternative Trip

Nightowl1701

Nightowl1701

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This guy really pulled off something here. Using 'a combination of Blender, Affinity Photo, Da Vinci Resolve, and generative AI' for both visuals and dialogue, he crafted a 'What If' version of the third act of 2001: A Space Odyssey based far more closely on the novel/early draft screenplay by Arthur C. Clarke. In that version, Discovery One had been going to Saturn instead of Jupiter (until Douglas Trumbull's FX team proved unable to convincingly portray the ringed planet and its moons onscreen). The visuals for the Stargate sequence all come from the novel's descriptions, while the hotel room owes a lot more to our own real-life 2001 than Kubrick's vision of it.
 
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That's a really awesome video--the only thing that disappointed me when I saw the movie was the stargate sequence.
 
I watched this last night. At first I thought it was based on the unused chapters from The Lost Worlds of 2001 book, but it was an interesting take on the story regardless.
 
theenglish said:
That's a really awesome video--the only thing that disappointed me when I saw the movie was the stargate sequence.
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IOW, since they're already mucking about with art that they didn't create and don't own, they might as well go on and squirt some generative AI on it? :lol:
 
FredH said:
No no no, he
gets found in space a thousand years later and reanimated by the humans of that era…
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I know that. I've read 3001.

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The fan film ignores 2010 and beyond, which is completely in line with what Clarke himself says about the sequence of novels, that they're all "variations on a theme," and not necessarily in continuity with one another.
 
I saw this a few days ago and, as a huge fan of both the book and the film, I absolutely loved this.
 
Thinking about this video, I took Clarke's The Lost World of 2001 off the shelf and reread the closing chapters there. Lost World is part non-fiction (Clarke's thoughts on the development of the film) and part lost draft/narrative dead-ends. And the version of the story there is different than either the novel or the film.

That version of Clarke's story ends at Jupiter. Bowman was able to successfully revive the other astronauts, and when they arrive at Jupiter, they begin observing the Jovian moons. There's a moon in a tight orbit of Jupiter that's difficult to observe because it's so close and so fast known as Jupiter V. What the Discovery crew discovers is that Jupiter V is basically a half-sphere with a monolith on the half-face. Unable to contact Earth (the communication array was wrecked) and with enough fuel remaining to reach Jupiter V but not enough to climb out of Jupiter's gravity well, the Discovery makes its final flight and enters orbit of Jupiter V. The crew makes several missions to the surface to study the Monolith, and then Bowman enters the Monolith.
 
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