Ray Bradbury's A SOUND OF THUNDER is finished

[slaughters]

Any links to the movies website? Character Sketches or renders? Movie Trailers? Animatics? Anything at all besides the one paragraph you actually quoted?

[jones123]

Trailer
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/asoundofthunder/

[paintbox]

Nice trailer ! Really got me excited to see the movie... plus it has Ben Kingsley in it who usually makes a good performance in any movie.

edit : love to see a bigger version of that trailer though !

[lord Sphere]

Nice trailer ! Really got me excited to see the movie... plus it has Ben Kingsley in it who usually makes a good performance in any movie.

forget ben kingsley.... I think I just saw a flying pig. :eek:

[dadathome]

Here's a link to the short story, published in 1952, that this is based on

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

[Speaker]

i hope the movie holds my interest like the trailer has. i've always admired ray bradbury writing. this movie has much potential to be an entertaining ride.

[jones123]

I like the story idea of the movie, but CG dinosaurs in the trailer are very "fake"..........

[Stahlberg]

Don't think the story is very realistic either, if it's at all similar to the original. If the past is that fragile you just don't let some yahoo's with guns loose in it.

Anyway, seems to me the past wouldn't be as fragile as Ray theorizes, since if 1 mouse dies, the food it would have eaten becomes available, another mouse who would have starved to death is able to live longer and have more mouselings etc. Mother Nature is a self-balancing system (up to a point). So net result, I suspect, no predators would die from starvation as a result of stepping on a mouse. :)

[Q_B]

Not a mouse, a butterfly...

"Embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, was a butterfly, very beautiful and very dead"

He stepped on a butterfly when he straied out of the path. And you know the saying, a butterfly flappin wings in Toquio could start a tornado somewhere else...

Anyways, this is one of Ray Bradbury's short tales that i love the most, probably cos i read it at a very young age, and it kinda marked me ever since. Of course i knew nothin about chaos theory and stuff alike back then when i was 11 or so, but it really left a strong impression on how weird things might occur when messin with the past...

But i don't think the movie is going to be much based on the story. Actually, from what i read and from the trailer, seems like the story is basically just the beggining of the movie.

ps: about the butterfly effect, of course it could be "a mouse flappin its big ears in toquio..." :scream::eek::)

[jones123]

In fact, the script of this movie is approved by Ray Bradbury.

[Stahlberg]

The example that Ray gives in his story (via one of the characters), to explain the whole concept, concerns stepping on a mouse.

[Q_B]

I believe you. As i said, it's been ages since i last read it. It was in a sci-fi compilation, and i seem to have somehow lost track of that book ...:sad:

[slaughters]

... if 1 mouse dies, the food it would have eaten becomes available, another mouse who would have starved to death is able to live longer and have more mouselings etc... Agreed. Still, it was one of my favorite shorts as a kid. I'd just forgotten the name of it.

Of course, I'd be more worried about introducing virus flu's and germs into the past than I would be worried about one little mouse. According to the histories I've read, it was this more than anything else wich wiped out most of the native population in North, South, and Central America when the Europeans came calling.

[the sparky]

Anyways, this is one of Ray Bradbury's short tales that i love the most, probably cos i read it at a very young age, and it kinda marked me ever since. Of course i knew nothin about chaos theory and stuff alike back then when i was 11 or so, but it really left a strong impression on how weird things might occur when messin with the past...


basically the same story for me. I loved the story when we read it in middle school, and it remains one of my favorite Bradbury stories.

[Rye]

Is this a made for TV movie? I saw better looking dinosaurs over 10 years ago when Jurassic Park was released. Ray's short story might have been really good (hadn't heard of it until reading this thread), but this just looks unbelievably lame and cheesy.

[rebo]

The last decent movie Ben Kingsley made was Ghandi.

[edit, just saw the trailer] God that man is a clown.


Is this a made for TV movie? I saw better looking dinosaurs over 10 years ago when Jurassic Park was released. Ray's short story might have been really good (hadn't heard of it until reading this thread), but this just looks unbelievably lame and cheesy.


Agreed.

[jones123]

I think that the story of this movie should be good( at least Ray approved the script)..........I just hope that CG dinosaurs will be better in the finished version of the movie.

[AmbientLight]

Jones123, did you purposely register on the forums to post the news about this movie? You also wrote it 2 times already that Mr. Brandbury approved the script? Do you mind sharing the link? I can hardly believe that he would approve it. I have a feeling it is going to be as great as Time Machine; yet another great book Hollywood has ruined.

[jones123]

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2003-09/02/12.00.film

[ Hyams added that he has been a big fan of Bradbury's since the director was a boy, and that he consulted with Bradbury throughout the development of the script. "He was involved in the sense that I kept on saying, 'Is this OK with you? Is this OK with you? Is this OK with you?'" Hyams said. "He's Ray Bradbury. If he didn't like something, I wouldn't do it." Hyams added, "He's been unhappy with a lot of things that have been done based on his work. And I did not feel like joining that group. I want to be the founding member of the other club. I want to make a film that he adores." ]


PS: Ray introduced the trailer of this movie himself in Comic-con
http://www.mediasharx.com/index.php/columns/2843
Best Trailer Moment at a Panel
Ray Bradbury introducing the trailer (in a prerecorded clip) for A SOUND OF THUNDER -- Get a mob of excitable women with the promise of Keanu Reeves forthcoming, it's surprising that everyone in the room turned to a respectful hush when Ray Bradbury appeared on screen. And then the trailer itself? Just fantastic.

[Q_B]

To be honest, and after watching the trailer yet again, this has all the ingredients to become a mediocre film.

As i said earlyer, the original story is far too short to support a full feature film, so it seems the film starts with the original short story, but it developes in the present time (for the actors) when they face the results of the disturbances created in the past.

Lookin at the trailer, one thing i just can't stop feeling is that its going to be flooded with stupid cross-breed creatures.

But there are other things that look extremely nice there. The torn-like design of the lettering, the time-warped introduction, some futuristic (yet not very achieved) cityscape shots.

Anyways, this is just the trailer, and as we all know, a "book" should never be judged solely on the cover.
I'm still anticipating the arrival of the movie. Who knows, it can turn out great after all :shrug::) !

[Levitateme]

yeah the cg on the dinosaurs looks real, but it looks like models you can buy at walmart, it does not look organic.

[Jeremypiven]

Short story was sa-weet,the movie may be just above average,that's my gut feeling.:)

[mverta]

That CG is atrocious. Offensively bad. The performances are stilted and/or cartoony... this film is obviously a total dog...

Wow, a new low.

_Mike

[slaughters]

According to IMDB the release date has been pushed back to 31 December, 2005 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318081/releaseinfo) - A full 14 months after the announcement of it being completed.

I guess they have some serious editing to do :)

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