Last week, a rather interesting fan film based on Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was released. What might the ending have been like had it followed the story of Clarke’s novel, which has its climax among the moons of Saturn, instead?
Warning. This does contain generative AI. If that’s a dealbreaker for you, you may want to pass. I, personally, am amazed at the visuals of the Monolith on Iapetus and the Grand Central Station that Dave Bowman passed through.
This brought to mind an older fan film, done with models, that I really enjoyed. Ignoring Clarke’s novel sequels (2010, 2061, 3001), what happens to Frank Poole, adrift in space? The Epilogue fanfilm explores that. Poole would continue on essentially the same path as the Discovery–Newton’s laws of motion and all that–and perhaps enter a solar orbit in the vicinity of Jupiter, but it wouldn’t be a stable orbit and, eventually, the giant’s gravity would pull Poole’s corpse in…
What amazing stuff.