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Article: 2001 The secrets of Kubrick's classic Never-seen-before footage released to the IoS reveals the extraordinary discarded prologue to Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey. By Anthony Barnes
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 23, 2005
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It is the missing part of a cinematic classic. Almost four decades
ago, Stanley Kubrick gathered the world's scientific minds and asked
them to predict the future. Their thoughts would then form the
opening sequence of 2001: A Space Odyssey, his epic about a mission
to Jupiter which becomes a life or death battle between the space
crew and their on-board computer HAL 9000.
But the interviews were never screened and the collective thoughts
of 21 eminent men and women of science appeared to have been lost for
ever.
Now the musings are to be made public for the first time when they
are published next month, giving Kubrick enthusiasts an insight into
his ultimate vision for the classic film.
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