A Distant Thunder?

[zoomar]

I understand a film is soon to be released which is based on an old Ray Bradbury short story, which I believe was called A Distant Thunder or something like that. The premise of the story is that time travel exists and that a bunch of people get to go back in time to hunt a dinosaur under tightly controlled conditions to make sure they don't screw up the future. One guy screws up, steps on a butterfly, and when they get back they find thta the person they were glad lost the presidental election - an evil guy named "Deutcher" if that isn't some kind of anti-German freudian slip - had won. According to a short article I glanced at in Cinemascope the movie seems to have the same premise, but supposedly promises more radical changes.

Anybody else hear of this and want to see it?

 

[Satanic Mechanic]

I believe Ray Bradbury had a short number of stories made into shows ( Ray Bradury's Thearte?) and this was one of them. They sometimes air these episodes on the Sci-Fi channel as a marathon.
I would rather have Hollywood not touch this story. It seems whenever they get hold of a good book, they mess it up big time.

SM

 

[zoomar]

I believe this will be a "Hollywood" production and I now remember reading that Ben Kingsley will play the owner of the time-travel company. Old Ben is maybetoo much "star power" to waste on a SciFi network show.

 

[edvader]

I thinlk I may go see this,Zoomar. I understand the film was delayed in production for reshoots. Look at CATWOMAN! |Yikes.
Never a good thing. Also there are games based on it coming out on the GameBoy Advance and Playstation2.Wonder if there will be a sequel? I'll go after i see SKY CAPTAIN in the World of tomorrow.

 

[robertp6165]

I understand a film is soon to be released which is based on an old Ray Bradbury short story, which I believe was called A Distant Thunder or something like that. The premise of the story is that time travel exists and that a bunch of people get to go back in time to hunt a dinosaur under tightly controlled conditions to make sure they don't screw up the future. One guy screws up, steps on a butterfly, and when they get back they find thta the person they were glad lost the presidental election - an evil guy named "Deutcher" if that isn't some kind of anti-German freudian slip - had won. According to a short article I glanced at in Cinemascope the movie seems to have the same premise, but supposedly promises more radical changes.

Anybody else hear of this and want to see it?

The story is actually called "A Sound of Thunder." If you would like to read it...

http://www.sba.muohio.edu/snavely/415/thunder.htm

Its a wonderful story, and I think it would make a great movie, if done well. As I mentioned on another thread, the Simpsons did a marvellous parody of it on one of their Halloween specials.