Celluloid Heroes

The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

While he was not a filmmaker or an actor, Arthur C. Clarke’s contribution to film was immeasurable for his role in the making of a single film, that being Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. His sequel, 2010, was also made into a film by Peter Hyams, but it was that 1968 masterpiece that showed the world how science fiction could be taken seriously by a serious filmmaker and wasn’t just the province of pulpy juvenilia.

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