A Sound of Thunder (film)
- Edward Burns: Travis Ryer
- William Armstrong: Ted Eckles
- Catherine McCormack: Sonia Rand
- Ben Kingsley: Charles Hatton
- Jemima Rooper: Jenny crasis
- David Oyelowo: Tech Officer Payne
- Wilfried Hochholdinger: Dr. Andrew Lucas
- August Zirner: Clay Derris
- Corey Johnson: Christian Middleton
- Heike Makatsch: Alilcia Wall Beck
- Armin Rohde: John Wall Beck
A Sound of Thunder is a science fiction film made in 2005 by Peter Hyams. The screenplay is based on the eponymous short story by Ray Bradbury. Unlike the film, the time anomaly is not corrected in the short story.
The film was originally to be released in 2002. Due to delays the shooting, which were triggered by the Elbe floods in the Czech Republic, as well as financial problems of the production company A Sound of Thunder was not published until three years later.
After the film was panned by most critics and went without a large marketing campaign in the cinema, he became one of the biggest financial flops of 2005 and was at an estimated film budget of 80 million U.S. dollars worldwide, only 10.4 million U.S. dollar import.
Action
Who wants to travel into the past, is in 2055 when the company Time Safari in Chicago corresponding offers. Well-heeled adventurers can travel back millions of years and go on dinosaur hunting. However, the participants have to take account of strict rules in order not to affect the time. But at one of the excursions kills Middleton, a participant, a butterfly and thus damaged the structure of time. This manifests itself in massive intermittently occurring changes in the present to the disappearance of the human species
A team of scientists and staff from Time Safari succeeds to correct the mistakes in the past and thus the structure of time to restore to the original shape.
Reviews
" The consequences are changes in evolutionary history, which soon wreak havoc with bad CGI tricks on the present ... Conclusion: So gaga that it is funny again! "
" Fantasy film based on a story by Ray Bradbury, whose bonds at Jurassic Park ' are obvious. Experienced Entertainment under its (financial) opportunities. "
Background
The cost of production was estimated at 80 million U.S. dollars. The film played in theaters in the USA a about 1.9 million U.S. dollars.