2010: The Year We Make Contact

"My God, it's full of stars!"

- Dave Bowman

2010: The Year We Make Contact is a 1984 science fiction film, written and directed by Peter Hyams. Co-written by series creator and author Arthur C. Clarke, the film is the sequel to the 1968 sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick. 2010 was produced by MGM and released theatrically in the United States on December 7th, 1984. The film takes place ten years after the events of the first film and focuses on the character of Doctor Heywood R. Floyd, a retired scientist who played a minor role in the original film. Floyd is recruited as part of a joint US/Russian space journey to recover the Discovery One spacecraft from the orbit of Jupiter and determine what went wrong with the 2001 Jovian mission. Their inquiry brings them into contact with the mysterious alien Monoliths and Floyd learns the truth about what really happened to astronaut Dave Bowman.

Notes & Trivia

 * 2010: The Year We Make Contact was released on VHS and laserdisc in 1989. Laserdisc list price was $34.99. It was first released to DVD on August 25th, 1998 and on Blu-ray on April 7th, 2009. VHS and laserdisc releases were distributed by MGM Home Video while the Blu-ray edition was distributed by Warner Home Video.


 * Principal filming for 2010 began on February 7th, 1984 and concluded in November of that year (including reshoots).


 * Although this is the final film in the "Space Odyssey" series, the story continues in the 1987 novel 2061: Odyssey Three.


 * Douglas Rain reprises his role as the voice of the HAL 9000 computer. He is the only actor to have worked on both films in the series.


 * Arthur C. Clarke makes a cameo appearance as a man sitting on a park bench.