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   T987654321 to Jack Bohn   
   Re: 2001 remake   
   24 May 19 13:19:43   
   
   From: qwrtz123@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at 7:25:57 AM UTC-7, Jack Bohn wrote:   
   > Your Name wrote:   
   >    
   > >Come to think of it, they did try to remake it ... it was called    
   > >"Interstellar".  ;-)  Another movie that started off okay, but went    
   > >with wacky nonsense at the end.   
   >    
   > In between, 2000's "Mission to Mars."   
   >    
   > I'm trying to think what a "2001" remake should have, especially with Your   
   calling for an in-name-only remake.  (Wait a minute, we can't call it "2001"   
   or even "2010"!)  Basically the joke "How the Solar System Was Won" towards   
   which Clarke sold    
   Kubrick several short stories to use as vignettes.  But we need a big-picture   
   wrapup to point to a deeper meaning.  When it comes to this Chariots of the   
   Gods stuff I'd rather be an atheist.  Maybe something that makes the migration   
   to space look less    
   like the white male european horde sweeping westward and look more like "The   
   March of the Penguins."   
   >    
   > --    
   > -Jack   
      
   There's a third book, 3001 (if I remember), that they could make.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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