Watch: 21-Minute Documentary 'Vision Of A Future Passed: The Prophesy Of 2001' With Roger Ebert, William Friedkin, And More

Last week, we took a look at “Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001,” a 2007 documentary that explored the impact Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” had on other and later filmmakers. Today, to cap off the week, let’s examine '2001' through another lens — that of it’s inconsistently prophetic ability to predict the realities of a then decades-distant future.

Directed by Gary Leva, the same documentarian who made 'Standing on the Shoulders…,' “Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophesy of 2001” compares the future Kubrick predicted when he made his film in the late 1960s to the “future” that we now live in. Turns out, there’s a lot the director correctly guessed.

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“Kubrick and his team visualized space and the surface of the moon in a way that turned out to be prophetic,” explains unparalleled film critic Roger Ebert. And it’s true. Douglas Trumbull, the Special...