2010 The Year We Make Contact

Classic Science Fiction movie adapted from the Novel by Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Sequel to 2001 a Space Odyssey.

2010 is a 1984 science fiction film released by MGM and directed by Peter Hyams. Its full title is given on posters and DVD releases as 2010: The Year We Make Contact, although the subtitle does not appear in the film itself. It is based on the novel 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke. The film, like the novel, is a sequel to the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Plot;
The film is set nine years after the mysterious failure of the Discovery mission to Jupiter, depicted in 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which four astronauts died and another mysteriously disappeared while investigating an alien monolith orbiting Jupiter. Dr. Heywood Floyd (Roy Scheider, taking over from William Sylvester who played the role in 2001) - who was Director of the National Council on Astronautics during the Discovery mission - has been made the scapegoat, and has since left the NCA to become a university chancellor. Amid growing friction between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, both nations are preparing to send missions to Jupiter to determine what happened. The Soviets suggest a joint mission: their ship Leonov will be ready one year ahead of the American ship, Discovery 2, but they need Americans to help investigate the HAL 9000's American-made computer systems.

The U.S. government reluctantly agrees, as recent data shows Discovery is slated to crash into Jupiter's moon Io within years because its orbit is decaying. Floyd feels responsible for the failure of the mission and volunteers for the mission himself. He recruits two colleagues: Dr. Walter Curnow (John Lithgow), an engineer and the original designer of Discovery, and Dr. Chandra (Bob Balaban), creator of the HAL 9000 computer. Their mission is threefold: to find the reason for the Discovery mission's failure, to investigate the Monolith in orbit around the planet, and to find answers for David Bowman's disappearance. They hypothesize that much of this information is locked away on the now-abandoned Discovery craft...
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