It was announced yesterday that Arthur C. Clarke’s 3001: The Final Odyssey is going to be adapted for television by the Syfy Channel with the backing of Ridley Scott’s production company Scott Free, along with Warner Horizon Television. Stuart Beattie (Pirates of the Caribbean, Collateral) will write the adaptation and serve as executive producer along with Scott Free’s Ridley Scott and David W. Zucker. Clayton Krueger will serve as co-executive producer. This will be the second Clarke novel being adapted by the Syfy channel as Childhood’s End is due to begin production later this year.
3001: The Final Odyssey was Arthur C. Clarke’s final chapter in the Space Odyssey saga which included 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010: Odyssey Two (The Year We Make Contact) and 2061: Odyssey Three. It’s unclear why at this time both Syfy and Scott Free have bypassed 2061.
3001 continues the story of Frank Poole, the astronaut cast into the vacuum of space by HAL9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey. It begins with the discovery of Frank Poole’s frozen body, a thousand years on, floating in space. 3001: The Final Odyssey offers an extraordinary range of complex characters with conflicting agendas, stunning visuals, and dark thematic meditations on the final fate of all Humankind.
Arthur C. Clarke’s Odyssey series spanned over 30 years, with the initial publication of 2001 in 1968, and the final 3001 1997. The original film, directed by Stanley Kubrick, is an Academy Award winning classic, and 2010 was the only other of the novels to be filmed. The estates of both Kubrick and Clarke have offered their full support for 3001: The Final Odyssey.
“I have always been a fan of Clarke’s extraordinary Odyssey series, and certainly Kubrick’s adaptation of 2001. I am thrilled to be part of bringing that legacy to audiences and continuing the great cinematic tradition that this story and its creators deserve,” said Ridley Scott.
“Arthur C. Clarke is the father of modern science fiction,” said Syfy President Dave Howe. “We couldn’t be more excited to be working with Scott Free and Warner Horizon Television to bring to the screen, for the very first time, the final chapter of this extraordinary masterpiece.”
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Originally published November 4, 2014. Updated April 13, 2018.
