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From: KIESCHE@RU-BLUE.ARPA
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Subject: 2010:  Odyssey Two
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Date: Thu, 10-May-84 09:46:41 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 10 09:46:41 1984
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Peter Hymans is writing AND directing 2010.  He is also (yes) the director
of Capricorn One--and--The Star Chamber and Outland...

Special Effects are being handled by the Doug Trumbull group...

Music is being done by Tony Banks, of the rock group Genesis.  It will most
likely be a totally "synthetic" score, instead of the recent trend in 64-
piece orchestras...

Re--a recent message on why in 2001 the Discovery went to Jupiter and not
Saturn.  The author of that message was partially correct.  In Jerome Agel's
Making of 2001 (Signet Books), it is stated that the main difficulty was the
RINGS of Saturn, not the coloration of the planet.  After all (as it is stated
in the book), the two planets look fairly alike...gas giants with lost of bands
of clouds.  The problem was finding a way of depicting the rings so that they
did not look *fake*.  

It should be noted that Trumbull was eventually able to solve this problem,
and sent a ship to Saturn in the movie Silent Running...

Respectfully submitted,


Frederick Paul Kiesche III

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