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MONOLITH: New Documentary on 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Gets Greenlight with Leonardo DiCaprio Producing
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was a seismic event in the history of cinema, and now it’s finally getting the deep-dive documentary it deserves. Titled Monolith, this upcoming film has the full backing of the Kubrick estate and the Stanley Kubrick Film Archive, and it’s shaping up to be just an ambitious and thought-provoking project.Production kicks off this month, with Listen to Me Marlon director Stevan Riley at the helm. He’s ready to unpack how the sci-fi movie not only changed the language of film, but also eerily foreshadowed the world we now live in. “2001 is the ultimate Zeitgeist movie,” Riley says. “It was recently voted the #1 movie of all time by film directors, and for good reason. It predicts and speaks to the dramatic technological and societal changes that we are facing today.”Backing the project is a stacked team of producers, including Mike Medavoy and Michael Lee Peterson of Phoenix Pictures, Jason Clark of Catchlight Studios, Sean Richard, and Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson of Appian Way. TIME Studios and Partners in Kind are co-financing the doc.According to the official announcement, Monolith “offers an in-depth exploration of the groundbreaking ideas that emerged from the partnership between Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and their collaborators, many of which have shaped the modern era.” Expect rare archival material, including previously unseen letters between Kubrick and Clarke, as well as commentary from modern-day visionaries who drew inspiration from the film to build everything from tech empires to philosophical frameworks.The doc also aims to reach beyond the screen. The Partners in Kind Foundation, along with Propper Daley BPI, is launching philanthropic and educational initiatives tied to the film’s major themes that include artificial intelligence and ethics, human evolution, and the eternal quest for knowledge. Claudia Cahill, formerly of Omnicom Media Group, will oversee brand partnerships and development, while executive producers include Gillian Hormel, Shelly Tygielski, Dave O’Connor, Loren Hammonds, Philip Watson, and Fares I. Fares.If there was ever a movie that deserved this kind of reverent and expansive treatment, it’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s the rare film that continues to spark intense discussion over half a century later. As the Guardian’s Killian Fox put it in 2013, “Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey is, for me, primarily about the experience of total awe. Yes, you can spend an entire evolutionary stage debating the meaning of the interstellar monolith…”Source: Deadline
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was a seismic event in the history of cinema, and now it’s finally getting the deep-dive documentary it deserves.
Titled Monolith, this upcoming film has the full backing of the Kubrick estate and the Stanley Kubrick Film Archive, and it’s shaping up to be just an ambitious and thought-provoking project.
Production kicks off this month, with Listen to Me Marlon director Stevan Riley at the helm. He’s ready to unpack how the sci-fi movie not only changed the language of film, but also eerily foreshadowed the world we now live in.
“2001 is the ultimate Zeitgeist movie,” Riley says. “It was recently voted the #1 movie of all time by film directors, and for good reason. It predicts and speaks to the dramatic technological and societal changes that we are facing today.”
Backing the project is a stacked team of producers, including Mike Medavoy and Michael Lee Peterson of Phoenix Pictures, Jason Clark of Catchlight Studios, Sean Richard, and Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson of Appian Way. TIME Studios and Partners in Kind are co-financing the doc.
According to the official announcement, Monolith “offers an in-depth exploration of the groundbreaking ideas that emerged from the partnership between Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and their collaborators, many of which have shaped the modern era.”
Expect rare archival material, including previously unseen letters between Kubrick and Clarke, as well as commentary from modern-day visionaries who drew inspiration from the film to build everything from tech empires to philosophical frameworks.
The doc also aims to reach beyond the screen. The Partners in Kind Foundation, along with Propper Daley BPI, is launching philanthropic and educational initiatives tied to the film’s major themes that include artificial intelligence and ethics, human evolution, and the eternal quest for knowledge.
Claudia Cahill, formerly of Omnicom Media Group, will oversee brand partnerships and development, while executive producers include Gillian Hormel, Shelly Tygielski, Dave O’Connor, Loren Hammonds, Philip Watson, and Fares I. Fares.
If there was ever a movie that deserved this kind of reverent and expansive treatment, it’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s the rare film that continues to spark intense discussion over half a century later.
As the Guardian’s Killian Fox put it in 2013, “Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey is, for me, primarily about the experience of total awe. Yes, you can spend an entire evolutionary stage debating the meaning of the interstellar monolith…”
Source: Deadline
