TITLE: 2001: A Space Odyssey
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YEAR: 1968 film — 1978 Australian re-release poster
FILM STUDIO: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
DIRECTOR: Stanley Kubrick
CAST: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter
TAGLINE: This Australian re-release campaign does not use the film’s traditional tagline; instead it prominently features a promotional quotation from Star Wars director George Lucas praising 2001: A Space Odyssey.
GENRE: Science Fiction
POSTER PRINTER: M.A.P.S. Litho Pty. Ltd., Sydney
POSTER DESIGN FEATURES:
Australian Daybill produced for the film’s 1978 theatrical re-release. This distinctive two-colour blue-and-orange design is markedly different from the illustrated 1968 Australian campaign. The upper section prominently promotes George Lucas and Star Wars, reproducing Lucas’s comments describing Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 as the superior science-fiction film. The lower orange field carries the film title in large, highly stylised black geometric typography. The photographed example clearly carries the M.A.P.S. Litho Pty. Ltd. printer credit along the lower edge. Australian poster research identifies this blue-and-orange M.A.P.S. design as one of the posters produced for the 1978 re-release. All About Movies
COLLECTOR’S NOTES:
This is a particularly interesting Australian re-release variant because its campaign directly reflects the enormous cultural impact of Star Wars in 1977. Rather than relying on imagery from Kubrick’s film, MGM promoted the re-release through George Lucas’s public admiration for 2001: A Space Odyssey, making the poster a crossover collectible for both Kubrick and Star Wars/Lucas collectors. Australian poster research distinguishes this 1978 M.A.P.S. printing from the substantially more valuable first-release Australian Daybills, so it should be catalogued specifically as a 1978 re-release, not a 1968 first-release poster. Movie Posters Australia
PROVENANCE:
This original Australian cinema poster is being sold directly by the family of its original collector, a projectionist who screened films during their Australian theatrical release. It comes with documented provenance and a Certificate of Authenticity confirming its originality and collection history, providing an unusually direct connection between the poster and its working cinema past.