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- ChangeSaturn became Jupiter
In the book, Discovery heads to Saturn and the second monolith sits on the moon Japetus. The film switched to Jupiter because the effects team couldn't build convincing Saturn rings.
source ↗ - ChangeWho orders HAL shut down
In the book, Mission Control orders the crew to disconnect HAL if he fails again. In the film, Bowman and Poole decide on their own, hidden in the pod, and HAL reads their lips.
source ↗ - ChangeOpen hatches
The book's HAL opens the hatches and vents the ship's air, and Bowman barely makes it. In the film, he cuts life support to the hibernating crew and locks Bowman out.
source ↗ - ChangeThe bomb the movie dropped
The book ends with the Star-Child setting off an orbiting nuclear weapon far from Earth. Kubrick cut the idea because it felt too close to the ending of Dr. Strangelove.
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- ChangeThe Chinese ship vanished
In the book, the Chinese ship Tsien reaches Jupiter first and tries to land on Europa. The movie dropped the Tsien and Professor Chang's whole story.
source ↗ - ChangeCold War on the edge
The movie pushes the US and the Soviet Union to the brink of war while the Leonov is at Jupiter. The book has no such crisis.
source ↗ - ChangeOne more death
In the movie, a crew member dies approaching the monolith in a pod. That scene was made for the screen.
source ↗ - ChangeThe message got longer
In the book, the warning ends with "attempt no landing there." The movie adds a call to use those worlds together and in peace.
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- ReferenceTimed for Halley's return
Clarke picked 2061 because Halley's Comet comes back that year. Floyd's trip to the comet is where the book starts.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesClarke didn't wait for Galileo
The Galileo probe, meant to show Jupiter and its moons up close, was delayed. Clarke published in 1987 anyway; the probe reached Jupiter almost eight years later.
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- Behind the scenesTom Hanks as Frank Poole?
In 2000, reports said MGM and Tom Hanks were discussing a movie, with Hanks as Poole. A year later the project had stalled.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe miniseries that never aired
In 2014, Syfy ordered a 3001 miniseries with Ridley Scott as an executive producer. It was never made.
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