2010: The Year We Make Contact Certificate: 
- Duration:
- 111 mins
- Year produced:
- 1984
- Director:
- Peter Hyams
- Cast:
- Roy Scheider
- John Lithgow
- Bob Balaban
Sometimes it’s unfair to judge a movie by what might have gone before it - and 2010 is an example of just that. Although it will forever be overshadowed by the movie that it acts as a sequel to – director Stanley Kubrick’s classic 2001: A Space Odyssey - it’s actually a solid and entertaining movie in its own right. The story picks up roughly where the original film left off, with the space programmes of America and the Soviet Union joining forces to find out exactly what happened on the spaceship Discovery back in 2001. The answers are sure to amaze you – and while this may not be the masterpiece that the first film was, it’s still slick sci-fi fun with some great effects and an absorbing story.
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Fascinating facts
During the planning stage of 2010, an email connection was provided for Peter Hyams (in Hollywood) and Arthur C. Clarke (in Colombo, Sri Lanka) so that Hyams could regularly consult with Clarke about how to adapt the novel to the movie screen. In 1983/4, such an email correspondence was practically unheard of outside the academic community, and it was certainly the first for the film world. Edited highlights of the emails were published as a book, "The Odyssey File", in 1984.
Although Stanley Kubrick had no involvement with the making of 2010: The Year We Make Contact, the movie’s director Peter Hyams got in touch with him to make sure he was happy for the film to be made before agreeing to take part himself.