2001 SE in the works!!! (1 Viewer)

[Neil S. Bulk]

That is a 1993 re-recording with Jerry Goldsmith conducting the National Philharmonic Orchestra. It's a great album, certainly a favorite of mine, but to hear the original tracks would be a dream come true.

Neil

 

[Gordon McMurphy]

The Alex North score was never cut and synched to the final film, so it would be a huge task to do so now. The Kubrick Estate would never allow Warner to do so, anyhow. But it would be great if the original tracks were released in an Alex North boxed set.

2001 is one of my most favourite films, so this is great news for me. I'll definately buy the SE. I just hope that Warner includes the original 1967/68 behind-the-scenes documentary. It's a stunning look at the making of the film. Great footage. I saw it in the early 90s on some cable channel and I have always wanted to see it again.

Clockwork Orange could also benefit from an intelligently produced special edition DVD.

 

[Geoff_D]

This is indeed great news. Hopefully the new 2001 DVD (and the new Strangelove DVD) will sell well and convince Warner to give the same treatment to all the Kubrick movies that they own. I'm sure that Leon Vitali and others close to Kubrick could provide a wealth of information for such releases. Anamorphic 1.66:1 video for certain titles would also be greatly appreciated.

 

[Al (alweho)]

I wouldn't get any hopes up for any new anamorphic transfers in the WB re-issues so long as Leon Vitali remains involved.

 

[Dan Rudolph]

The latter has no U.S. rating, so if it were released in the U.S., it would be unrated.

 

[Ravi K]

Didn't Kubrick demand that for the Criterion LD SEs of Dr. Strangelove and 2001 they remove the supplements relating to the film itself and only leave the supplements about the Cold War and about space?

 

[Heinz W]

2001 doesn't need a new transfer, but rather a new authoring/encoding job. The transfer is great on the latest DVD IMO. It just needs the EE removed.

 

[Matt Czyz]

I wasn't implying that I was hoping for a box set of the two movies. The movies are just to disparate to be grouped together. They're two completely different animals. I still enjoy "the other movie" (and 2001 has been my favorite movie period for years and years) and was simply saying that if Warners ever wants to do an upgrade to it (coughcoughanamorphic), now would be a super time.

 

[Peter Kline]

Alex North's unused score for 2001 was once available on Varese-Sarabande a few years ago. It was a re-recording and not the peformance he recorded for the film. While on the subject of unused material I believe I once read that a narration was written for the film. I don't remember whether it was actually recorded or not.

 

[Rob Gardiner]

Ravi,


In the case of Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick asked that the early draft screenplay (presented as a series of text screens) be removed. I believe the CAV edition (with supplements) was taken out of print, while the movie-only CLV remained available.

I am aware of no such request re: 2001. As far as I know, both CAV and CLV editions remained available until Criterion lost the rights to the Turner catalog, and no supplements were ever removed from the CAV edition.

 

[Gordon McMurphy]

It was not recorded. More intertitles ("Dawn of Man", "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite") were also considered.

 

[Richard Kim]

Well, Barry Lyndon, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut have been broadcast on HD in 16:9. I recall Vitali saying that Kubrick's films would be broadcast in HD with black bars on the side.

 

[Eric F]

It would be cool if we saw a 3001 movie.

 

[Matt Czyz]

This is veering off-topic, but 3001 was a horrible book and would make a terribly boring movie. Just my opinion, of course.

 

[Jon Robertson]

I'm still waiting for Lolita to be in the correct aspect ratio on DVD. The Criterion laserdisc supervised by Kubrick was presented exactly the same as Dr Strangelove - parts of the movie were 1.33:1, others were at a slightly narrower aperture, around 1.66:1. Seeing as the Kubrick estate supervised the remasters, I'm still surprised it had the standard 1.66:1 mattes slapped on for the whole thing.

Also, Barry Lyndon is around 1.55:1 on the current remastered DVD, not 1.66:1, presenting the film at the full aperture that Kubrick shot it at, so 16x9 enhancement, in terms of actual resolution gained, may be negligible.

 

[Kevin M]

Oh, yes...we wouldn't want to risk anyone possibly casting the accusation of boredom on the odyssey series.

I rather liked 3001 but then again I liked 2061 which many fans also dismiss as boring and pointless...I also liked the RAMA sequels.

 

[Matt Czyz]

I knew I was setting myself up for something by bringing up the word "boredom". I still think that by far, 3001 was the worst of the Odyssey books (and I loved all of the Rama books, esp. Rama II)

 

[Zen Butler]

Ali, mid-way through Blade Runner

 

[Sam Davatchi]

Are they going to add new CG effects to this SE? Because if not it would be a total waste of time!!!

 

[Tony-B]

There will be. Mike Judge is making it....

OH! You mean THAT 3001! Nevermind.

Zen: That's a very cute, yet off-topic picture. I like it!