2010

This belated sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is directed by Peter Hyams.
Roy Scheider plays the astronaut/skipper of a U.S.-Soviet space mission, sent to find out what happened to the missing Discovery flight that carried Keir Dullea into the beyond in the original 2001.

Scheider's polyglot crew includes Americans John Lithgow and Bob Balaban (the latter a computer whiz, responsible for the notorious HAL 9000) and Russians Helen Mirren, Elya Baskin and Natasha Schneider.
The reason for this international mixture is that the world is on the brink of nuclear war, and it is hoped that the space mission will assure east-west solidarity (in this respect, 2010 dates far more than 2001, given the collapse of the Iron Curtain).

When the astronauts catch up with Dullea, still in orbit around Jupiter, producer/director/writer Hyams attempts to demystify the enigmatic climax of 2001. Arthur C. Clarke, author of the story upon which 2001 was based, appears in 2010 as a man on a park bench. Incidentally, the voice-over credited to Olga Mallsnerd is actually Candice Bergen.
(The name Mallsnerd is a play on the name of one of the characters created by her ventriloquist father Edgar.) ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Theatrical Release
1/1/2000

Director
Peter Hyams

Cast Credit
Roy Scheider as Heywood Floyd
Cheryl Carter - Nurse
John Lithgow as Walter Curnow
Natasha Schneider as Irina Yakunina
Helen Mirren as Tanya Kirbuk
Candice Bergen - SAL 9000
Robert Lesser as Dr. Hirsch
Bob Balaban as R. Chandra
Larry Carroll - Anchorman
Keir Dullea - Dave Bowman
Delana Michaels - Commercial Announcer
Douglas Rain - HAL 9000
Ron Recasner - Hospital Neurosurgeon
Madolyn Smith as Caroline Floyd
Dana Elcar as Dimitri Moisevitch
Taliesin Jaffe as Christopher Floyd
James McEachin as Victor Milson
Mary Jo Deschanel as Betty Fernandez
Elya Baskin as Maxim Brailovsky
Savely Kramarov as Vladimir Rudenko
Oleg Rudnick as Vasali Orlov
Vladimir Skomarovsky as Yuri Svetlanov
Victor Steinbach as Mikolai Ternovsky
Jan Triska as Alexander Kovalev
Herta Ware as Jessie Bowman
Arthur C. Clarke - Man on Park Bench
Penny as Perry

Producers

Peter Hyams Producer
Julia Phillips Producer
Neil Machlis Associate Producer
Jonathan A. Zimbert Associate Producer

Distribution Companies
MGM/United Artists

Writer
Arthur C. Clarke Book Author
Peter Hyams Screenwriter

Production Credits
M. James Arnett Stunts Coordinator

Art Department
Syd Mead Production Designer
Albert Brenner Production Designer
George Jenson Art Director
Rick Simpson Set Designer
William Ladd Skinner Set Designer

Casting
Penny Perry

Film Camera
Dave Stewart Cinematographer
Peter Hyams Cinematographer
Music Credit
Richard Strauss Featured Music
David Shire Composer (Music Score)

Physical Effects
M. James Arnett Stunts
Robert Harman Stunts
Jim Halty Stunts
Freddie Hice Stunts
Gary Morgan Stunts
John Meier Stunts
Mic Rodgers Stunts

Production Management
William S. Beasley first Assistant Director
Neil Machlis Unit Production Manager

Sound
Michael J. Kohut Sound/Sound Designer
Gene S. Cantamessa Sound Mixer
Richard L. Anderson Supervising Sound Editor
Warren Hamilton Sound Editor

Visual Effects
Mark Stetson Visual Effects
Richard Edlund Special Effects Supervisor
Henry Millar Special Effects Supervisor

Wardrobe Hair Makeup
Pat Norris Costume Designer
Michael Westmore Makeup


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