Stanley Kubrick Had All the Props from 2001: A Space Odyssey Destroyed So They Couldn’t Be Reused in Bad Sci-Fi Movies
After 2001: A Space Odyssey wrapped, Stanley Kubrick did something that feels less like a post-production decision and more like the final act of a Bond villain: he had all the sets and props destroyed. The glowing monolith? Gone. The EVA pods? Scrapped. The sleek interior of the Discovery One, with its antiseptic beauty and unsettling symmetry? Bulldozed into oblivion.
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