A sound of thunder

Movie
German title	A sound of thunder
Original title	A sound of thunder
Country of production	Germany , Czech Republic , United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2005
length	97 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Peter Hyams
script	Gregory Poirier , Thomas Dean Donnelly , Joshua Oppenheimer
production	Andrew Stevens , Moshe Diamant , Karen Baldwin
music	Nick Glennie-Smith
camera	Peter Hyams
cut	Sylvie Landra
occupation
Edward Burns : Travis Ryer Catherine McCormack : Sonia Rand Ben Kingsley : Charles Hatton Jemima Rooper : Jenny Krase David Oyelowo : Tech Officer Payne Wilfried Hochholdinger : Dr. Andrew Lucas August Zirner : Clay Derris Corey Johnson : Christian Middleton William Armstrong : Ted Eckles Heike Makatsch : Alicia Wallenbeck Armin Rohde : John Wallenbeck

A Sound of Thunder is a science fiction film from the year 2005 of Peter Hyams . The script is based on the short story of the same name by Ray Bradbury .

The film was originally scheduled to be released in 2002. Due to delays in filming caused by the Elbe floods in the Czech Republic, as well as financial problems for the production company, A Sound of Thunder was not released until three years later.

After the film by most critics panned was and went without a large marketing campaign in theaters, he became one of the biggest financial flops of 2005 and was at an estimated film budget of 80 million US dollars worldwide, only 10.4 million US - bring in dollars. The film did not come to German cinemas and was marketed on DVD on January 11, 2007 .

action

If you want to travel back in time, you will find appropriate offers in 2055 at the Time Safari company in Chicago. Well-heeled adventurers can travel back millions of years and go hunting for dinosaurs . However, the participants must adhere to strict rules in order not to influence the time. But on one of the excursions, Middleton, one of the participants, kills a butterfly , damaging the structure of time. This manifests itself in massive, intermittent changes in the present up to the disappearance of the human species.

A team of scientists and employees from Time Safari succeeds in correcting the error in the past and thus restoring the time structure to its original form.

Reviews

"The consequences are changes in the evolutionary history, which soon have a devastating effect on the present with bad CGI tricks ... Conclusion: So gaga that it's getting weird again!"

- Cinema

“Fantasy film based on a story by Ray Bradbury whose borrowings from Jurassic Park are obvious. Routine entertainment within the scope of his (financial) possibilities. "

- Lexicon of international film

backgrounds

Production costs were estimated at 80 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 1.9 million in US cinemas.

See also

• Dinosaurs in the movie
• List of dinosaur movies

literature

• Ray Bradbury: Distant Thunder . In: Ray Bradbury: Don't walk through quiet streets. 16 utopian-fantastic master stories. Heyne, Munich 1970.

Web links

• A Sound of Thunder in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• A Sound of Thunder at Filmportal.de
• A Sound of Thunder atRotten Tomatoes(English)
• A Sound of Thunder atMetacritic(English)
• Film review by Spiegel Online

Individual evidence

1. ↑ film review on cinema.de
2. ↑ A Sound of Thunder. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .