Premiere Magazine's 25 Best Movie Posters Ever23 of 25
Designed by Mike Kaplan - Originally designed, but discarded as a less prominent image to promote the film, this poster for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey became the main focus of the advertising campaign when it was decided that audiences weren't as excited by traditional space age images as they had been during the 1950s. The image of an embryo embraced the film's theme of human evolution and Kubrick had complete authority over the film's marketing.