In a movie with few speaking parts, I’d long assumed he was probably one of Floyd’s colleagues or maybe even the mission control guy who checks out the AE-35 unit from Earth.
That would be Dan Richter, a name I’d never paid attention to, even though he’s listed fourth in the credits after Keir Dullea (Bowman), Gary Lockwood (Poole) and William Sylvester (Heywood Floyd). Clarke, special-effects wizard Douglas Trumbull, and any number of other people and incidents.īut I never expected the most interesting person in the book would be the guy who played Moonwatcher, the ape that’s the protagonist of the opening “Dawn of Man” sequence. I expected to find out new things about director Stanley Kubrick, writer Arthur C. That’s what I realized from “Space Odyssey,” Michael Benson’s making-of book that came out last year, the film’s 50th anniversary. And yet I can still be surprised by it – and stories about it. It never fails to fill me with joy and awe.
(It’s certainly the one I’ve seen on the big screen the most – including once in full Cinerama at Atlanta’s long-defunct Columbia Theater and, last year, twice in its restoration roadshow.) That may not sound like much – Tom Hanks, a superfan, has seen it more than 200 times – but it may be the film I’ve seen the most. I have seen “2001: A Space Odyssey” at least 15 times. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece by Michael Benson Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C.
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