For film buffs and science fiction fans, the news is sensational: 17 minutes never seen before the legendary 2001: A Space Odyssey were found by Warner Bros in a warehouse in a salt mine in Kansas, where they were kept in secret.
Revelation was produced by special effects genius Douglas Trumbull ( who participated in the effects of the Stanley Kubrick film and those the classic trilogy of Star Wars ) and David Larson, during a public discussion on their 2001 documentary, Beyond the Infinite: The Making of a Masterpiece (of which you can see a trailer in the rear of the post), which Unfortunately, Warner does not intend to make, and that the intention of its authors would have been the product of ten years of research, interviews, discussions about the film and its genesis.
The 17-minute question would consist of a series of sequences, Kubrick cut from just before the international distribution, which describes life aboard the space station and of the spaceship Discovery in greater detail, and some additions to the scene of the death of Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood), and in that of the final duel between Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) and the infernal machine Hal , and in the final sequence, the most cryptic, which takes place in the room "alien".
by the recovery of deleted scenes the movie would return to almost 160 minutes of full version, which we hope one day to see.
If it had not been present, the film was released back in 1968. One can not but be deeply impressed by the vitality of science fiction images that seem current, but have now more than forty years. The masterpiece influenced all subsequent production generally, and not just film.
It seems that the cut in 17 minutes, at the time, had been dictated by the mere commercial need to avoid excessive length of the projection.
is to be hoped that Warner intends to move very much on the working of the "extended version", as the precious documentary Trumbull and Larson.
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