A Sound Of Thunder

[MacGuffin]

Trailer here.

Release Date: March 11th, 2005 (wide)

Cast: Edward Burns (Travis Ryer), Ben Kingsley (Charles Hatton), Catherine McCormack (Sonia Rand), Wilifried Hochholdinger (Dr. Lucas), Corey Johnson (Christian Middleton), Jemima Rooper (Jenny Krase), August Zimer (Clay Derris).

Director: Peter Hyams (2010, End of Days, The Musketeer, The Relic, Outland).

Screenwriter: Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer (debuts; they're also working on Crusader's Sahara).

Based Upon: The short story of the same title by Ray Bradbury. It's been previously dramatized as part of the Ray Bradbury Theatre TV series. The short story inspired a sextet of sequel novels by Stephen Leigh, published from 1992-1995 (so, if this is a hit, there's plenty of room for sequels): 1. "Dinosaur World", 2. "Dinosaur Planet" 3. "Dinosaur Samurai" (with John J. Miller) 4. "Dinosaur Warriors" 5. "Dinosaur Empire" (with John J. Miller) 6. "Dinosaur Conquest".

Premise: Set in a near future where time travel is possible, this is the story of a travel agency, Time Safari Inc. (owned and managed by Kingsley's character), that arranges hunting trips for wealthy customers back in time to hunt dinosaurs. Each trip is carefully planned, with a scout identifying dinosaurs about to die, and then sending the clients back just seconds before, so the course of time is not altered by the kill. However, in this case, a nervous hunter steps off the trail, and steps on a butterfly. The historical repercussions of the death of a single butterfly, compounded by millions of years of effects, leaves the hunters to return to a future that is not quite the one they came from... Now, Travis Ryer (Burns), the lead dinosaur hunter, must team up with Sonia Rand (McCormack), the inventor of the time machine technology to stop the "time waves" that are rippling up from this event, threatening to erase humanity from existance.

[Pubrick]

poor kingsley, poor, poor..

[Ghostboy]

This went from summer 2003 to spring 2004 to summer to 2004 to October 1st to March 2005...watch it end up being released the same day as Mindhunters.

[Just Withnail]

Ahaha. Shitty dinosaur effects 11 years after Jurassic Park did them flawlessly.

[Ravi]

What's with the wig on Kingsley?