Guy Ritchie confirmed

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LONDON, England - Guy Ritchie is confirmed to helm a new 2001 adaptation to be produced by Jon Peters (Batman, Superman Returns and Wild Wild West) for Warner Bros. “yes, we know that the movie is called 2001... and it will be released in 2009, we are working on that” said the screenwriter Michael France (Fantastic Four, Hulk) “we are trying to work with a time loop premise: they travel back to 2001 to save our planet, I think is a very clever solution.”

Some parts of the story leaked to internet and raised a lot of criticism. Mainly because the HAL 9000 computer is turned into a giant spider robot near in the end of the movie in a battle over the exploding volcanoes of Jupiter with Dave for the monolith. “We really want to make a real odyssey this time” says the producer “a breathtaking-nonstop-action-thoughtful-odyssey-thriller.”

Kubrick fans are displeased since Ben Affleck’s Paths of Glory had a new ending, where the soldiers aren’t killed by their own troops, but save themselves and freed France from the nazis (nazis didn't exist in WWI). “No” said Michael “there are some things that are sacred, we will not alter the original story one bit. There is a giant spider, yes, but it will not change the structure at all.”

Clive Owen is attached to reenact the commander Dave Bowman, and Matt Damon as the bold lieutenant Frank Poole. Jude Law will make the voice of the HAL computer.

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