By drax on Skatehive
More than half a century has passed and, though Hollywood has taught us never to completely rule out unpleasant surprises, it seems rather unlikely that any of its grandees would get it into their heads to remake 2001: A Space Odyssey. The main reason lies in the title itself, or rather the year that was a bright future of space exploration for Clarke and Kubrick, but an ever more distant and down‑to‑earth past for us. That, of course, doesn’t mean that every now and then some ambitious filmmaker doesn’t appear and try to make the best science‑fiction film that even more ambitious critics ought to call “the odyssey of our time”. The last time this happened was in 2014 when Christopher Nolan attempted to repeat Clarke’s and Kubrick’s magic with Interstellar – a very good achievement that, however, could not reach such a high bar. In 2019 a similar endeavour was taken up by James Gray with his science‑fiction epic Ad Astra, which has received a string of critical accolades and enjoyed th