Sean Fennessey

He was always on the hunt, it sounds like, for material, for something that could make for a good story.

But then you have to shape the story.

In this case, he approaches Clark,

And he has the original idea, but the Clark story, The Sentinel, is a huge inspiration for the idea that he has.

And so they take parts of a pre-existing story and then they fold it into one section of this smaller movie.

It's this really unique version of story synthesis that, again, like I was trying to...

find some other examples of a movie like this.

There's just not any other movies like this.

2001, did it follow?

I think it's 73.

Oh.

This is a little bit of a confusing one with 2001 because critically, it's very split.

And there are some extremely sharp-elbowed, kind of nasty reviews about the film.

Pauline Kael, not a fan.

Very tough piece.

And then there's some that are very laudatory right out of the gate.

Yes.

And then the movie, it seems like in the first week, it does okay business.

Yes.

It's not a bomb, but it just does okay.