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The sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and its sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984). In the sequel, astronaut Dave Bowman returns as a disembodied consciousness and tells his former wife that something wonderful is about to happen on the Jovian moon, Europa.
The Planet & The Event.
The Location:
The mysterious events center on Europa, an ice-covered moon of Jupiter, as well as Jupiter itself.
The Wonderful Event:
Highly advanced alien beings use the monoliths to turn Jupiter into a mini-sun (a star named Lucifer), which melts Europa's ice and provides the warmth needed for primitive aquatic life on the moon to evolve.
The Starchild:
At the end of the first film, astronaut Dave Bowman travels through the monolith into an alien "human zoo" where he rapidly ages and is reborn as the Star Child—the next stage of human evolution.