Production design from the MGM motion picture 2010: The Year We Make Contact by Syd Mead. The film, written and directed by Peter Hyams, is based on the novel 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C Clarke.
Triton said:[The Leonov is described as being equipped with a Sakharov drive, a fictional new method of propulsion that makes it possible for the craft to make a round-trip to Jupiter.
F-14D said:Not sure if this is the appropriate place to point this out, but...
Why was there still an EVA pod in the Discovery when the Leonev arrived??
Orionblamblam said:The first pod is lost when Frank is killed... it is seen tumbling away. The second pod is lost when Bowman goes after Frank, and has to come in the small airlock. The third pod is lost when Bowman flies it into the monolith. The pod in 2010... I dunno. Maybe one of the first two is auto-recovered. It's been 20+years since I read 2010...
saturncanuck said:Orionblamblam said:The first pod is lost when Frank is killed... it is seen tumbling away. The second pod is lost when Bowman goes after Frank, and has to come in the small airlock. The third pod is lost when Bowman flies it into the monolith. The pod in 2010... I dunno. Maybe one of the first two is auto-recovered. It's been 20+years since I read 2010...
In the novel it is mentioned that the pod that Bowman goes to get Poole with is recovered. If you notice in the film, the pod has no rear hatch on it, as they shine the flashlight though it.
Michel Van said:Director Peter Hyames wand more "Serious!" design for the Movie
Syd Mead had design for Leonov a umbrella like Headshield
but technical adviser for movie Dr Richard Terrell wanted Ballute
The Leonov Eva Pod had redesign three times by Syd Mead
on demand of Hyams "To make the Pod more Visually substantial"
the First design of Pod was some think like Telephone boot with rocket engines
Source
Kronovectra: concept design of Syd Mead
Bandai Books 1991
Page 154-168
F-14D said:Not sure if this is the appropriate place to point this out, but...
Why was there still an EVA pod in the Discovery when the Leonev arrived??
The Artist said:And, on the question of what happened to the models? You might want to read this
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/faq/index4.html#slot51
[font=times new roman, times]Trevor Parsons writes
I was at college in Stevenage (about 15 miles away from St Albans in the early 1970's). Our studio, we were studying graphic art, faced the entrance to the local corporation dump. One afternoon in 1974 a truck turned up after the dump was closed & left some crates in the entrance way. They contained 2 of the models used in 2001, the space wheel & one of the pods. Of course they may not have been the only ones but I believe they were genuine (the film had been made about 20 miles away at Boreham Wood the old MGM studios). By the time I got there the pod had been taken, the space wheel damaged & taken out its wooden case. I took pictures of it, its surface had been covered with bits of old plastic construction kits to make it look more technical when filmed. I desperately wanted to take it home, but I only had a motor bike & a room 8 feet by 10 so it was not really workable. It was smashed up by kids a few days later. [/font]
The Artist said:And, on the question of what happened to the models? You might want to read this
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/faq/index4.html#slot51
Being as someone who is actually building spaceship models for filming, and having a huge appreciation of their use in films at all, let me tell you that was painful for me to read. :'(
That was not truethe original model and all plans were ordered destroyed by Director Stanley Kubrick after filming 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick feared that had the models survived, they might be used in later productions.
There were talks about dumping them at NASM / Smithonian but nothing happened.That was not truethe original model and all plans were ordered destroyed by Director Stanley Kubrick after filming 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick feared that had the models survived, they might be used in later productions.
in fact after movie was done the sets were dismantle to make place for next productions in Stage (common practice in Hollywood)
Allot parts and props ende up in storage at MGM-British in Borehamwood, were most of 2001 was shot.
and they stay there because MGM had no idea what to do with it for next 4 years
Then new US management closed MGM-British in 1970 because Deal with EMI and move to there Studios
and here begins the destruction of props and sets pars of 2001 as they clean out Studio and storage.
some stuff ended up in BBC or EMI props department, other in private hands or ende in landfill
on Dokumentation and Plans
you should really visit the Stanley Kubrick Archive, were most of paperwork of 2001 are stored,
I don't know how much content of the 12 container survive, but Kubrick stored his paperwork on his movies.