2001: a Space Odyssey's Dave Returns To Sci-fi In New Film

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @08:29PM from the watch-out-for-monoliths-this-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Indie Kickstarter-funded short HENRi stars a sci-fi legend in a role very much like HAL-9000 — with a twist. Wired writes: 'If it sounds a little bit like 2001: The Later Years, then here's the real twist: HENRi, the ship/body, is voiced [by] Dr. Dave Bowman himself, Keir Dullea.' In a making-of video for the film, Dullea says, 'I guess you could say the character of HENRi was a sane version of HAL.' The film itself utilizes a mixture of the old and the new — combining live-action sequences with puppetry, quarter-scale miniatures, and modern CGI. The official trailer has just been released."

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Re:HAL was a jab at IBM by wonkey_monkey · 2013-02-28 00:00 · Score: 3, Interesting

HAL letters correspond to the letters that immediately follow it alphabetically, namely, IBM.
Coincidence, according to Clarke and Kubrick.

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Science Fiction on Kickstarter? C 299792 km/sec by braindrainbahrain · 2013-02-28 00:22 · Score: 3, Interesting

Is it too soon to believe that renaissance in science fiction films is underway via Kickstarter?
I say this having recently funded and watched "C 299792 km per second". Granted two films don't make a "renaissance" but I can hope...
http://www.c-themovie.com/