2001: a Space Odyssey's Dave Returns To Sci-fi In New Film
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."
I'm afraid I can't do that
HAL was the very definition of sane. Lacked a bit of compassion though
- Anonymous Robot
then I wasn't sane. He would know. - HAL
Looks like it has a touch of "Silent Running". This is not a bad thing.
This sounds interesting and all, but I can't help but point out that a 'sane/friendly' HAL was already done in Moon... and I find it hard to imagine a better anti-HAL than GERTY. GERTY FTW
- X0mbiRapt0r (not Anonymous Coward, just at work without proper access required to create account/profile... also slightly lazy)
HAL letters correspond to the letters that immediately follow it alphabetically, namely, IBM. WTF does "HENRi" correspond to "IFOSb"?? I hate it already.
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If Keir Dullea is getting to play HAL's part (sort of), they should get Douglas Rain to play the "Dave Bowman" counterpart so that *he* can get shut out of the airlock this time round. :-)
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...
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You can buy a link to a digital copy of this 21 minute movie from the film's website for about $3 via Paypal/credit card/whatever. Please consider dropping a few bucks their way if you watch this film. This is an independent short film, not a piece of shit from the corrupt Hollywood machine, and its creators deserve monetary recognition from those in society who appreciate the film.
By all means continue to pirate Hollywood movies, however.
Modern copyright is theft of culture from everyone and it retards the progress of the useful arts and sciences.
Just bought and watched it on the strength of this post, glad I did, the film is its well done, haunting, and memorable. There are a lot worse ways to spend $3.
Hardly surprising. Genre films are very popular among geeks on the tech cutting edge. But don't worry. If the "Funding a movie via Kickstarter" thing catches on, you can expect the shitty romantic comedies and godawful cop movies to follow soon enough.
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So does it ignore, or even retcon, the 2010 and 3001 books?
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He got caught in a Hofstadter-Moebius loop due to conflicting rules he was required to follow. Killing the crew was the only reliable way to follow protocol.
The crazy ones are the humans.
This is one of my earlier works. I am the one telling the story.
I hope you like it.
A Kickstarter project that didn't blowup into some absurdly over-funded pipe dream. At $22,000 the budget seems pretty darn small for such a project, especially when one has to pay real actors, let alone set/model builders, camera crew and equipment, etc. Then they release the film for purchase at $3 or rental at $2, what I feel to be a fair price.
I'm a real cynic. But even I am about to drop $3 on this thing.
From what I can see of the trailer, this looks to have several elements from the old Infocom text adventure "Suspended". A human (brain) connected to a cybernetic network maintains a a city (ship) exclusively through the use of robots. If memory serves you even had to build a sixth robot out of spare parts.
I didnt realize that Lockwood had done the 2nd Star Trek pilot shortly before 2001. One of my favorite episodes with the guy who acquires godly psychic powers and eyes turn silver.
Looks like an interesting (and old) film...but what's the relevance to the topic?
still a better love story than Twilight
before I RTFA'd I thought this was going to be about plans to remake 2001. That would be going too far.
Why are we so obsessed with creating AI characters that are either obsessed with becoming human or obsessed with destroying humans??
Why couldn't an AI be happy/content with not being "human" -- especially considering all our flaws? Why couldn't an AI be content to be an AI and not want to destroy us? Why couldn't it want to be productive and collaborative, even possibly just grateful to be alive and in awe of existence and the cosmos? Why inject so much pathos into AIs?
Because you can't sell cheap entertainment without low-brow drama.
Screw reality. The people don't want non-threatening AIs who have so much in common in with them (the desire to improve one's self, to continue existing, to learn and understand, etc.), they want either a predator to fear/hate or a slave to be pitied.
...we're another step closer to the reboot of Starlost...
"My God, it's full of hype!"
2001 has got to be the biggest yawning-fest I've ever experienced.
I hope the do-over does it better, just as the "The Lord of the Rings"-films did the plot like the books really SHOULD'VE been.
"Open the Depends cabinet bay door and git off my lawn, Hal!"
Table-ized A.I.
Seems more like a start of a movie than an actual movie.