2001: A Space Odyssey: Epilogue with Frank Poole. 👉 (Ignoring 2010 etc. Sorry, Arthur C Clarke!)

[@EAMAMUSIC]

Showing the monolith’s shadow first was an inspired choice.

[@altha-rf1et]

They still have not said who built the monolith's here in the news last year there are other one place around the world as well not just here in the united states

[@MatthewBaileyBeAfraid]

The change from the Vertical Sun and Planetary Bodies (Here the Moons) to Horizontal was also a rather inspired, if curious, choice. Typically the Monoliths are always foreshadowed by something. They are a Metaphor for God, after all, albeit not the Transcendant, Super-being external to the Universe, but something that arose within it, so that the Universe might “Know Itself” and hopefully find a way to alter its current “ending.” Can the Universe escape its own death the way beings inside it attempt to do?

[@mgoodman2302]

agreed!

[@JamesLawner]

If 2001 had a post-credits scene

[@fernvalleyinn9172]

I built a 9 foot tall monolith in my front yard with this music intro on demand. People walking by are amazed. I saw the original movie in Hollywood circa 1968.

[@gjune0]

Did you make it the correct proportions 9 x 4 x 1? and did it look correct? Seems like the movie version was much thinner...Love your idea btw!

[@DanYHKim2]

​@@gjune0I thought the three dimensions were supposed to be prime numbers

[@gjune0]

@@DanYHKim2 They are the squares of the first 3 integers, 1,2,3.....1,4,9. (And 1 is not a prime number, it is an Identity)

[@georgejones3526]

And how silly of you all to think that the 1 4 9 pattern stopped after the first three dimensions.

[@Beer_Dad1975]

@@gjune0 Also if I recall the book correctly, accurate down to as far as they were capable of measuring.

[@davidrosler5413]

Brilliant. Nothing short of brilliant. Visually better than most of Hollywood's VFX; tone, contrast and detail are magnificent. I mean this as the former managing editor if Films In Review, the oldest film journal in the United States and a producer/director myself. Huge, huge applause.

[@stevebegg3843]

Hi David. Im a fan of your articles especially the fx oriented ones so thats a big compliment.. Cheers..

[@davidrosler5413]

@@stevebegg3843 and you honor me. Thank you. That work you did is simply spectacular in its nuanced, professional polish.

[@christianfishert23224]

Well said

[@unrecognizedtalent3432]

Entirely deserved praise. I cry every time I watch it

[@bettyleeist]

Wow!Here it show’s Frank Pool 🏊 getting closure after his 💀 death.He seems to go:”off into a more beautiful 😻 void,I hope,here?But,that landing on the moon!🌖 Ouch!That feel’s like it hurts….even though he’s gone!This a great 👍 filming sequence,because,Poole doesn’t just go on and on,here!Yeah….there has to be some rest at some point?Yeah,well…plunk on the ground!😊

[@FangornTiger]

Good work depicting all the micro impacts on the suit after 203 years doing a number of laps around the inner and outer solar system.

[@DanYHKim2]

Yeah, but you could recognize a human face within the helmet. After even a fairly short time, that body would have been plenty desiccated.

[@IanCthrwd]

With all that, very much doubtful Poole would make a soft landing there. He would of been pulverized at impact.

[@tommy1138]

I clicked on this and expected something amateur and forgettable, but this was extremely well done. I'm a massive 2001 fan and it's great to see Frank finally get some justice. I assume he will now join Dave as a Star Child.

[@nielspemberton9004]

Me too and I've watched this with the French composer Georges Delarue Concerto de Depart that was used in Roselyne Bosch's film La Rafle. BTW I doubt it would take 203 years. More like 18-19 years. So on January 6th 2021 at the exact moment a riotous and seditious mob storms the US Capital egged on by President Trump, Frank Poole careens into a moon of Jupiter.....

[@klarch]

@@nielspemberton9004 Trump is better than the puppet Biden.

[@MasterJediDude]

@@nielspemberton9004 just had to bring in politics. #douche

[@terrylong8894]

VERY cool video, but there is a continuity error. Jupiter underwent stellar ignition in 2010 and became a star.

[@riogrande5761]

@@terrylong8894 True, this was a moon of Jupiter. Maybe this just needs to have the date changed to fix it. Frank was still moving at the velocity of Discovery, so it makes sense that he would have headed into Jupiter's influence.

[@notsorandumusername]

This actually looks and feels like something Kubrick might have made. _Very_ well done!

[@ConradSpoke]

This is actually quite moving. It's nice to see Poole got a shot at galactic transcendence.

[@TheValeyard92]

But we know what happens when Poole becomes a transcendent space god. He tries to kill Captain Kirk.

[@Adarkane325xi]

You should read 3001. You won’t be ““moved”” by this fanboi trash anymore.

[@DJHastingsFeverPitch]

​@@TheValeyard92 Q

[@Teh1337H4x0rz111]

I clicked on the thumbnail expecting it to be a deleted scene from the original movie and it wasn't until I read the comments that I realized it was fanmade. I'm speechless.

[@billg3356]

You've done something pretty special here, man. This short has all the majesty and mystery of 2001, but it also has something that I find to be lacking from that movie: emotion. The simple gesture of Frank's hand twitching back to life and slowly reaching for the Monolith is really powerful. Excellent!

[@billg3356]

@@stevebegg3843 it's an outstanding short film. Was it really made in a garage and living room? My mind is blown!

[@stevebegg3843]

@@billg3356 Yep. Unfortunately I cant post behind the scenes pics here, Bill..

[@brianspencer6397]

Also an echo of Bowman's 'deathbed' hand gesture in 2001.

[@SB111058]

@@brianspencer6397 Well spotted and correct!

[@vikrammulligan6489]

This was very well done. You've captured the look and feel of the film quite well.

[@SB111058]

Made in a garage and living room, Vikram..

[@CaminoAir]

@@SB111058 Regardless, this looks and feels like Kubrick's visuals from the film Exceptional work.

[@jmholmes98]

I agree, very, very well done. Bravo.

[@dwdei8815]

Love it! That sudden cut to silence as the body falls to the Moon was a genuinely masterful Kubrickian touch.

[@whatsina1]

"Kubrickian ' Great adjective,,,

[@GenMaster]

There was no other way to do it, really. A "thud" would have been hilarious.

[@dwdei8815]

@@GenMaster A boing!

[@edfelstein3891]

As there is no sound in outer space -- and as 2001 was the only film that I know of (until Gravity) that illustrated that fact -- this was completely appropriate.

[@dwdei8815]

@@edfelstein3891 Fully agree, Ed. I found 2001 so impressive in its realism, with its eerie depiction of the silence of space, that every film that shows rockets, beacons and various celestial phenomena burbling, bleeping or grumbling in the vacuum gets an automatic Cinema Sin from me. To ponder it further - if, say, a black hole did emit some sort of radiated effect that agitated the cillia in our ears and was interpreted by the brain as a noise, was "heard" (even though the mechanism is different from pressure-waves being carried through an atmosphere), is it still true that space is silent?

[@alexritchie4586]

Goddamit, Frank! You just had to go and land on Europa, didn’t you? We're gonna catch hell from the Monoliths for this!

[@jamesdrynan]

Very cool idea, sir! When I saw the film in 1968 and watched Poole's lifeless body drifting away, I wondered how many eons he would continue on his solo journey. Your video provides an answer. His reanimation by the monolith is a groove.

[@stevejordan7275]

Then you really owe it to yourself to read Clarke's 3001 sequel.

[@onlyoneofhiskind]

In 3001 space odyssey his body was discovered and reanimated and he lived happily ever after.

[@artboymoy]

@@onlyoneofhiskind Sounds like the ending of A.I. Another Kubrick film (with Spielberg).

[@MIck-M]

@@onlyoneofhiskind Very sad that they never put 3001 to a film but doubt they could do it justice now.

[@kenknutson1598]

@@onlyoneofhiskind he even met Dave again.

[@leokimvideo]

Wow, what a masterpiece bolt on to a established masterpiece. Cement dust and all.

[@LJW55]

I can't quite figure out whether you are being facetious or actually praising this piece of work...

[@PoeLemic]

@@LJW55 Yes, he is praising this work. It's awesome.

[@leokimvideo]

@@LJW55 I know cheap cement dust when I see it

[@thesealsharkproductions9780]

Hello leokimvideo. Your videos were my childhood, thank you,

[@SB111058]

It was fullers earth, not that cheap...

[@Midcon77]

That would have been an epic post-credits scene for 2001! I know I'm late to the party but man, really well done!!

[@danalittle5929]

"2001 A space Odyssey" stands by itself alone. Your epilogue is so well done as to be a part of the film in every way.

[@SB111058]

Thank you Dana!

[@jackfriend4u]

agreed! now i won't be able to watch 2001 without seeing this "ending" for Frank, and i'm rather grateful for it. like to think the alien presence, wasn't going to let the opportunity of there being another human they could use to get their message through, go to waste. but i also like to think they gave one to H.A.L too. the computer had become sentient after being in the alien's orbit, and it had acted like a scared child, and i think if they were prepared to give the humans a few more chances, they would do it for the human's "children" too.

[@davidharrison7014]

You didn't like 2010?

[@jackfriend4u]

@@davidharrison7014 i think i appreciated 2010, more than enjoyed...some parts i really like but i guess overall i was (am) so taken by Kubrick's style, that i was foolish enough to think it'd be anything like that.

[@st.charlesstreet9876]

Just came across this today and you did this so extremely well with the thought and especially the direction that it really could be part of the movie. Exceptional Cinema work!

[@TheyMightBeBricks]

3:08 Was one of the most excellent shots I have ever seen. Channeled pure Kubrick with a mix of your own take as well.

[@dianadowning7992]

I've watched this many times,and it makes me so happy to finally see Frank get his turn. As a major Gary Lockwood and 2001 fan,to see Frank reach for the monolith brings tears of joy. Thank you for creating the long final voyage,and rebirth,of Dr.Frank Poole.

[@SB111058]

That is one of the nicest compliments! Thanks Diana!

[@dianadowning7992]

@@SB111058 You're very welcome. And...I just noticed Gary/Frank's face inside the helmet! Well done!

[@andreasilvestri1696]

And it's heartwarming thinking that, for someone above us, death or sacrifice can have meaning and value... So that we don't feel useless at the moment of the end...

[@kevinpittman2517]

u mean... this wasnt a deleted scene ? damn that was spectacular. 2001 and 2010 are films i watch alot because they tend to help me sleep. so i will often pop them into the tray after a long day. I couldnt see the difference at all in the quality.

[@gartwilliams3347]

Bravo 👏! I saw 2001 at a drive-in as a 9-year old in 1968. The soundtrack sparked my appreciation for classical music. Your use and timing of Gyorgy Litgeti’s “Atmospheres” was brilliant as was the ambient lighting as Poole’s body traveled thru the vacuum of space. This sequence is stunning and satisfying to say the least. Now that I’m now a 63-year old man, I’m glad to believe Frank Poole found peace 🙏.

[@stevebegg3843]

Hey Gart. Im so glad you liked it and what an ultimate compliment.. I was in the middle of doing other tests when I felt I had to make this short (which started as a simple test) and whilst doing it I kept feeling driven to keep adding to it and making it bigger. The moment of silence as Poole is crash landing on Ganymede was purely accidental when the soundtrack ran out, but I kept it in..There were a few incidents like that. I made it a few year's ago but its nice its getting some sort of recognition from people like yourself. Cheers Steve

[@gartwilliams3347]

Correction: Requiem not Atmospheres.

[@buddhasmurfy]

High as a kite first time I saw this. :-) Honestly thought it was an actual deleted storyline/scene at first. Well done.

[@David-cx4wy]

Brilliant. I got shivers and was instantly transported back to 2001 a space odyssey. feel like we got a bit of closure too. Thank you for your hard work and attention to detail.

[@buzzcrushtrendkill]

2:41 the hand twitching scene. Very well done, looks like a practical effect.

[@SB111058]

Its real. No GCI!

[@Metal_Jim_in_TX]

This three and a half minutes is better than the entire 3001 novel. As others have said, we finally got some closure for poor Frank. It’s just spectacular.

[@chefbillybaroo2056]

Yup

[@st.charlesstreet9876]

Yes, the most Beautiful Closure, excellent!❤

[@johnmarx3919]

yup that book is AWFUL!!

[@PaulHansen-h5y]

Yes, I thought this would be corny or worse but was actually sweet. Score well done too.

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

2001 novel sucked but clarke had his hands tied.

[@Maddie-rh7zf]

My heart just grew three sizes larger. I've seen 2001 so many times. I never tire of it. What you did here was really great.

[@SB111058]

Thank you Maddie, your comment did the same to me..

[@nearlyretired7005]

My brother read 2001 when he was at school.I borrowed the book and read it. When I was 21 my parents went to the Empire Leicester Square to see it on the big screen as a birthday treat. I am now sixty years old and still get emotional when watching this film,or hearing the Blue Danube. My wife and I went for a cruise on the Danube in 2017. In the evening a quartet played the The Blue Danube by Strauss while we were on the boat on the Danube.It did bring tears to my eyes! Frank Poole returns home to rest😌

[@kirklunderman6773]

I can't listen to The Blue Danube without thinking about 2001. Definitely not a bad thing.

[@KutWrite]

I agree. For the record, this music is "Also Sprach Zarathustra," also by Strauss.

[@alwyncooper1415]

@@KutWrite By a different Strauss - Richard Strauss this time; No relation.

[@reganclark750]

Very Cool!!! Almost coincides with my Novela "Odyssey Space" written in 2010 (unpublished). And set between Aurther C's "2010" and "2063." Where Frank Pool doesn't die and is "resurrected' in the same room as David Bowman lived out his corporeal life. He is then sent on a mission using HAL and Discovery between the two suns. Discovery, not having been destroyed when Jupiter collapsed.

[@mwallace2922]

Mate, this is way better than almost everything that Hollywood has put out in years. 👍👍👍🇦🇺

[@SB111058]

Cheers!!!

[@123lard123]

There was a novel written with this premise , Frank Poole is recovered and goes back to a future Earth.

[@arborist57]

Bravo! I've seen 2001 well over 100 times. No other film comes close. 2010 is a clunky contemptible mess. Your epilog would fit beautifully after the closing credits and before the exit music.

[@SB111058]

Great idea!!!

[@jeffcopoloff8716]

G E N I U S ….. simply the BEST 3 minutes of film , in the History of Film Making .

[@michaelcroos4713]

I like it, I saw the southern premier of the movie, in a theater in Texas, when it first comes out. It would have been within the power of the intelligence to revive him. I dig this postscript of the movie. Cool!!!!

[@ParranoviaSynthMark]

I really didn't want to watch this. I thought it's sacrilage to mess about with the best film ever made. BUT, I relented and I must say, this is fantastic! Well done Sir. Very tasteful and perfectly in keeping.

[@emgee44]

Only now has the KZbin algorithm suggested this fine, piece of work. I like so many others here, congratulate and thank you for your efforts. Like a missing jigsaw piece, I think this would dovetail into the original movie with no problem. 👏

[@SB111058]

Wow, thank you!

[@100Singers]

This short film is better than 2010. Congratulations!

[@philipdiblasi6508]

Excellent! Excellent!! Excellent!!!

[@blank557]

What makes it beautiful is that the black void of space is not the final end of mankind, to drift forever in the dark, but a beginning.

[@mgoodman2302]

Oh my goodness THIS WAS PERFECT!!! 2001 is completed now in my mind... and ready for a new beginning.

[@WhiteCamry]

Just imagining a cosmic edition of "This Is Your Life, Dave Bowman" with a surprise appearance by Frank Poole.

[@QuarrellaDeVil]

Gary Effing Lockwood, also contributing recently to the send-off that William Shatner got with Star Trek. I wonder if KZbin's algorithm is sending viewers of that one over here, and I'm certainly not complaining. Five years later ... Richard you hit a home run here.

[@socoman99]

This is close to what happened in the sequel books. The Monolith seen here is supposed to be the shared consciousness HAL and Dave Bowman. Frank is then pulled into their collective consciousness. This is all spelled out in the sequel books but if you're lazy like me, just Wikipedia the main title as a novel and it brings up all of the plot line scenarios in all of the sequel books.

[@mxbishop]

2001: A Space Odyssey is a message movie. To me, the message is: The universe is not only stranger than you imagine. It's stranger than you _can_ imagine. And this little film carries on in this fine tradition.

[@PolishGod1234]

To me the message is to appericiate our home planet instead of space traveling. Through the film we saw a lot of lonely feeling scenes like when Frank is running, and last scene shows star child returning to earth

[@helbent4]

@@PolishGod1234 An interesting point. (The books were clearly pro-space travel, so I'll only address Kurbrick's movie.) I guess in a long and rich (yet spare) movie you can see all kinds of themes, some of which are clear, some not so much. The problem with this "secret" message is that this contradicts everything Kubrick has said, because like most people of the time he was enamoured with space travel. Plus, Clarke was involved in every step and it's impossible to see him allowing his work about man's journey through space for first contact extraterrestrials being secretly anti-space travel. I think a more clearer metaphor, and this near the start of the movie, was when one of the hominids throws a bone into the sky which transforms into an orbiting spacecraft, indicating man's eventual destiny is to travel beyond Earth's atmosphere. That's just off the top of my head. A fascinating element of Kurbirck's movies is that they are open to this kind of interpretation and flights of fancy. There is a brilliant satire, Room 237, that likewise posits The Shining is actually Kurick's apologia for participating in the faked Moon landing. Several points of evidence are cited very convincingly. But it's just not true. And if what you think really is the case, then it makes the whole movie pointless. In the beginning the monolith helps mankind evolve technologically. Man goes into space and finds a second Monolith in Tycho crater, which points them in the direction of Jupiter. A no doubt extremely expensive expedition is mounted to investigate further. (These are lonely scenes to you, but to those who first saw it the space scenes were "serene". Once there, contact is made with extraterrestrials who themselves have presumably traveled to our solar system from light-years away. But all they do is send our emissary (Bowman) home. Like, was all that really necessary? You were already on Earth, you could have just left a clear message there! Anyways, appreciating and especially the environment is critical for our survival both physically and spiritually. But that and space travel are not mutually exclusive. After all, nothing makes you appreciate home more than a trip away!

[@interstellarphred]

Imagine this then: The PAN AM logo in the early 21st century, was actually on a freight train lumbering across northern Massachusetts.

[@basilthomas7607]

@@helbent4 The transition of the thrown bone is to a Nuclear Bomb in orbit. The symbolism is that despite our technilogical progression across the vast gulf of time between the African monolith and the Lunar one, we're still stuck on finding ever more efficient ways of destroying each other: from a bone as a club to smash skulls, to orbital weapons capable of incinerating countless skulls in mass desrruction. There are many questions and quanderies which follow from this, but the main idea (to me, anyway) is that the "Others" lifted us when we were at the verge of extinction from insufficient resources... and planted a second monolith for us to find when we have arrived at a second potential extinction via ourselves.

[@dr.OgataSerizawa]

@mxbishop I think your ‘message’ was mentioned by Heisenberg a while back.

[@grh7britton405]

Kubrick has a special place in heaven just for 2001. This is a fitting epilogue. To which I say: MORE, MORE, MORE!!

[@Cosmogenitor]

Brilliant, and gorgeously done. The only shot I missed was a parallel to seeing Dave in bed reaching toward the monolith from the monolith’s perspective. The parallax of the different landscape layers - perfection

[@SB111058]

Thats such a good point.. I did think about the reaching towards the monolith shot but to be honest I was cutting to the music.. Well observed..

[@randomobserver8168]

Terrific, original take, and fantastic execution.

[@paulhollier6382]

Epic! Finally, a sequel that's as good as the original. PLEASE, someone , make THIS into a feature film. [ Anyone *BUT* Disney, that is! ]

[@notsorandumusername]

Only Denis Villeneuve or Christopher Nolan could do it justice. Villeneuve is apparently planning to adapt Clarke's Rendez-vous with Rama into a feature film once he's done shooting the second part of "Dune".

[@nielspemberton59]

@@notsorandumusername Steven Speilberg ! If he could tackle the Holocaust, he could certainly "do" the rest of the "2001 Series the way Kubrick and Clarke would have wanted the films done.

[@notsorandumusername]

@@nielspemberton59 Yes, he defenitely could. His 2001 movie 'AI - Artificial Intelligence' - based on a script handed to him by Kubrick himself not long before his death, is clearly made in a visual style that is reminiscent of Spielberg especially in the first half or so (then it turns more Spielbergian). It can't be a coincidence that Kubrick thought Spielberg was the right man to do it (Kubrick knew he couldn't do it himself, because he often took years to make a film, meaning the child actor would age too much). And there's a reference to The Shining in Ready Player One.

[@tombaillie5219]

Anything beyond this brilliant imagining would be anti-climatic; leave a universe of mystery for the viewer to ponder, as did Kubrick. In this respect, '2010; the Year We Make Contact' (a pleasing sci-fi story in its own right) is anti-climactic: it reduces the mind-bogglingly numinous to the merely practical. The film is definitely more a sequel to Clarke's novel than to Kubrick's movie.

[@commonwealthoperative7354]

@@notsorandumusername I thought Dune sucked as regards the movie.

[@polyglot12]

Normally this is the type of thing I don't like - but I like this a lot! You did a great job on it. It evokes a lot of the mysterious feel of the original film, while staying respectful.

[@mediterraneandiet2483]

Congratulations. You have great potential.

[@TonokoMotoko]

I love it. What will Frank Poole do next? What happened to the rest of the Discovery crew that HAL murdered? Did they meet their own ‘monoliths’?

[@clickbaitus]

This was amazing, good job I really got the feel that we are in space. I enjoyed the lack of modern special effects, it made the atmosphere feel more authentic. 👍

[@SB111058]

No Special Deffects....

[@cocacola4blood365]

Modern special effects bend their knee to 2001 and ask it to teach them all it knows.

[@cocacola4blood365]

@@SB111058 None at all, sir. Even the impact damage Poole endured over the years is spot on.

[@francoislacombe9071]

I only just noticed. There are holes all over the suit, guess those micro meteorites did quite a number on poor Frank's body.

[@timsmith4096]

Absolutely brilliant! Matches the look and feel of 2001, not an easy feat.

[@franzhaas5597]

It was beautiful, Sublimea a new masterpiece. a great piece of art

[@charlescooler5680]

Extraordinary ! Congratulations Sir. I watched 2001 on its very first day in Paris, first show, in cinerama. There were few of us , and at intermission we all were in the lobby , smoking a cigarette, the great French actor Lino Ventura was there, with a young boy in a wheelchair. We were all stunned by what we had just seen, nobody said a word. I was so overwhelmed by the film that I went to get my cousin Tony and we went to the night show. I watch 2001 once a year or so and every time I am thrilled again, and again. This Poole ending is truly magnificent, Stanley Kubrick would have liked it. Thank you .

[@procrastinator41]

love reading this. A great memory of a moment. Thank you for sharing.

[@commonwealthoperative7354]

As do I and I also read the book once a year.

[@alice_evermore]

Excellent! - As it said in the book, Frank Poole was the first man to reach Jupiter.

[@word4you]

This new episode seemed to me more suited to Clark, who loves humanism, than to Kubrick, who loves old British-style irony. この新しいエピソードは、古いイギリス風の皮肉が好きなキューブリックよりも、ヒューマニズムを愛するクラークに合っているように思えました。

[@SB111058]

What a lovely observation! Thank you, NATU-CAT ...

[@nik_elektrik]

Cool. Touching. Brilliant. Thank you so much. This deserves to be canon.

[@SB111058]

Glad you liked it! Nik..

[@simonblackburn3704]

This is beautifully done. The Monolith makes all things possible.

[@beejls]

Always felt bad for Frank. Good to see he’s got a fresh start.

[@fdahm]

This amazingly captures Stanley Kubrick's and Arthur C. Clarke's visions, absent, of course of Frank Poole appearing in 3001 (I always felt it was a stretch). Amazing work and superbly professional. Thanks for making this a reality. :o)

[@cheeseskreist5654]

It does say 'Ignoring the plots of 2010 and 3001', but I agree great..

[@adriansue8955]

I don't think its That big of a stretch that his body kept floating around.... Lookup "Apollo 12 3rd Stage", for a real life example of lost space debris coming back for a visit. (it's estimated to return every 40 years)

[@billstorie5161]

You honour not only ACC but also Kubrick my friend - brilliant!! That said, when I first saw the floating rocks I had though you were going to have Frank surfing down to Jupiter on top of the monolith a la Dark Star....really need to sort my mind out one of these days.

[@tardismole]

Loved it. I loved the books and the movie, and this is like one of those extra scenes they like to put in after the credits. Perfect.

[@pascalgallez1126]

It would have been an excessively interesting end. I am certain that Kubrick is watching it from Heaven, with great pleasure.

[@nearlyretired7005]

"Now he was master of the world, and he was not quite sure what he should do next. But he would think of something"

[@SB111058]

Brilliant, Appendage, nearlyretired! Wish Id thought of it!

[@skyemac8]

… but it was all predetermined.

[@Workerbee-zy5nx]

Well done, from eternity in space to another chance.

[@berndkammermeier7916]

That was the first time, I saw something which was shown in connection to 2001, which was worth to be watched. Thank you! You understood 2001, its timing, content and meaning...

[@edfelstein3891]

I'd nominate this for a short subject Oscar if I could.

[@TheEyeOfStone]

Stanley Kubrick is my all time favorite director. (Because of but not JUST because of 2001: A Space Odyssey). When Arthur C. Clarke released 3001, I practically hit the ceiling. But both of these points having been made, - THIS should have been how 3001 started, not just Poole being found by yet another sleepy deep space mission. What if the Monolith / HALMAN had brought Poole back for their own enigmatic reasons? The CGI and models are prefect, they absolutely capture the essence of what Kubrick achieved. The pacing, scale and mood are wholly consistent with the film and the treatment honors the source material with the appropriate gravity it deserves, if you'll excuse the pun. I rarely give 5 out of 5 stars but this time I do. I've noticed over the last year and a half that we're starting to see more excellent projects, from real people, emerge on KZbin again. Maybe they're improving the algorithm, maybe more people are just looking for better content. But the DIY ethos of this video, honoring the works that inspire used to be a big part of what KZbin was about. I'm glad to see this now. It's also nice to hear that Gary Lockwood himself approved of this.

[@SB111058]

He did....Thank you.....

[@Sunlight70]

First thing the KZbin algorithm has got right for ages. Thank you, you've made my morning.

[@arnoldsherrill2585]

Imagine if you will, if this sequence have been added, to either film what a difference it would have made, in terms of the ending

[@SB111058]

I seriously hadnt thought of it that way, but blimey!

[@AlanCanon2222]

I like to think I'm the geekiest 2001: a Space Odyssey geek of all the 2001: a Space Odyssey geekdom that ever, ever geeked, after living for 54 years and growing up with the soundtrack album, then the novel, then the re-released film, then all three sequel novels and 2010, and now I'm like, holy shit, can you please get 42 billion dollars and direct both remaining sequels? That was a pixel-clean feast to behold. 2001 is my favorite science fiction franchise of all time (yes, Star Wars and Star Trek movies can bite me by comparison, I just like 2001 more), and I have not seen anything this beautiful outside of a 1968 70mm print.

[@Axgoodofdunemaul]

Damn this got me choked up! VERY well done!! I saw 2001 in the theater with my young wife when it first came out in 1967 or 8. I had been back from my first tour in Vietnam about 5-6 months.

[@frankenjstein9371]

Wow that is completely romantic to me. Born in 1970. Wish I could have done that, but I was born in the dark times, good times but dark compared to the 60's, early 60's anyway.

[@knightsofrreee7961]

It seems a more fitting and thematically satisfying conclusion to poor Frank's journey, when compared to the twee deus ex of 3001 - '...he got rescued like Ellen Ripley and he lived happily ever after' - no he didn't he went all spooky and ethereal and the mystery continues!!

[@jean-marcleblond6500]

In my opinion, I think you're damned right to ignore Clarke's 3001. I read the 4 books, and 3001 is a nonsense. It seems to me that Clarke destroyed the mysteries lying in his previous books. My advice : do not read 3001. I've always regretted it... Anyway, very good job for this video. Very, very good. The idea opens to a new area of possibilities !

[@stevebegg3843]

Jean-Marc, youde be surprised at the number of people who just dont see the 'IGNORING" description and then preach on about how this clashes with 2010 etc..

[@swordblaster2596]

It'd be fun to sneak this epilogue into a screening somewhere, without telling anyone beforehand.

[@dannytheman1313]

I imagine a group of star children looking at Frank floating in the void and thinking we still need this one.

[@stevebegg3843]

Love that!

[@frankenjstein9371]

Excellent! Goosebumps and tears.

[@Officemeds]

F'n chills man!!! CHILLS! I'm totally showing this at church on Easter instead of the Passion.

[@tombaillie5219]

Superb! And, as ever, the incomparable 'Thus Spake Zarathustra' theme grabs me by the throat.

[@paulward4268]

Superb work Richard - it really is! Could almost be Douglas Trumbull 50 years ago. Thank you for sharing and I tip my hat to you Sir.

[@TheNefastor]

Poole : "took you long enough."

[@jmf5246]

Great job! U captured the haunting feel of the movie and deep space!

[@robertlehnert4148]

Clarke (or a ghost writer's) resurrection of Poole in 3001 was so badly done, a thin excuse to use the "we will be seen as savages and barbarians by future generations" trope, that I did my best to blot it from my memory.

[@gizmonicman9879]

This is simply...something wonderful. Definitely should be added at the end of the film, after the credits.

[@kovanecky]

from dust you came, and to box you shall enter

[@adrianbehennah744]

This is amazing, I really enjoyed your short epilogue. Great job!!

[@marcellovacca3155]

Bravissimo, hai saputo cogliere alla perfezione sia il linguaggio di Kubrick che la sua intelligentissima abilità narrativa, hai capito il suo messaggio e il tuo finale è davvero credibile e consistente con il film. Bravissimo.

[@marcellovacca3155]

Ed è anche emozionante! Chapeu non ami!

[@SB111058]

Grazie mille

[@tsmgguy]

Stunningly beautiful! The holes in Frank's space suit are chilling.

[@omallyster]

Excellent. Left me wanting to know what happens next.

[@severstal81]

Extremely well done 👏 this was shared in a Facebook group and honestly I could believe it was a long lost scene it was done so well.

[@ThinkTank211]

I rarely comment on things, but this literally gave me chills…excellent work.

[@snoopyzzz2388]

And so it begins, for Frank Poole.

[@jamesmccourt9782]

Thank You KZbin! Thank you for whom ever made this. This is the best thing I've seen all year.

[@sherlocksteve9109]

This is a nice justice for Frank Poodle finally get his rest after being murdered.

[@mbitetto67]

Poodle? 😏

[@MartialVaneecke]

Great, could have been an alternative ending of 2001. If they hadn't found the one with the star child!

[@bettywing52]

This was so well made, you completely overwhelmed any thought of mine as to whose canon was overwritten.

[@facestab-ok4ih]

I literally teared up after watching this. Damn fine job.

[@SB111058]

Thank you!

[@CuddleFish124]

Oh my gosh this is amazing! I actually got chills watching this. Fantastic job you really captures the feel of 2001!