If there’s a movie that I’ll travel to see on the big screen to see, it’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Warner Bros. is planning for a new showcase event for it in May with theaters still to be revealed that will be hosting it by bringing out a new 70mm print that has not been updated and in essence is the exact same experience audiences had fifty years ago. What I love about this is that we get this new trailer for it which just looks fantastic and has a great feeling about it that you wouldn’t often get with older trailers in how they were put together.
One of the big boosters for this release is director Christopher Nolan who said, “For the first time since the original release, this 70mm print was struck from new printing elements made from the original camera negative. This is a true photochemical film recreation. There are no digital tricks, remastered effects, or revisionist edits. This is the unrestored film – that recreates the cinematic event that audiences experienced fifty years ago.”
Plot Concept: Stanley Kubrick’s dazzling, Academy Award®-winning* achievement is a compelling drama of man vs. machine, a stunning meld of music and motion. Kubrick (who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke) first visits our prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted space, perhaps even into immortality. “Open the pod bay doors, HAL.” Let an awesome journey unlike any other begin.