A Sound of Thunder ( film ) - wikipedia A Sound of Thunder ( film ) This is the current revision of this page, as edited by Trivialist ( talk contribs ) at 02 : 43, 31 July 2017 ( Cat - a-lot : Moving from Category : Adaptations of works by Ray Bradbury to Category : Films based on works by Ray Bradbury ). The present address ( URL ) is a permanent link to this version. Revision as of 02 : 43, 31 July 2017 by Trivialist ( talk contribs ) ( Cat - a-lot : Moving from Category : Adaptations of works by Ray Bradbury to Category : Films based on works by Ray Bradbury ) ( diff ) ← Previous revision Latest revision ( diff ) Newer revision → ( diff ) A Sound of Thunder Theatrical release poster Directed by Peter Hyams Produced by Moshe Diamant Howard Baldwin Karen Baldwin Screenplay by Thomas Dean Donnelly Joshua Oppenheimer Gregory Poirier Based on A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury Starring Edward Burns Catherine McCormack Ben Kingsley Music by Nick Glennie - Smith Cinematography Peter Hyams Edited by Sylvie Landra Production company Franchise Pictures Crusader Entertainment Baldwin Entertainment Group Etic Films Forge QI Quality International Distributed by Warner Bros. ( US ) Bioscop ( CR ) Release date September 2, 2005 ( 2005 - 09 - 02 ) ( United States ) Running time 103 minutes Country United Kingdom United States Germany Czech Republic Language English Mandarin Budget $80 million Box office $11.7 million A Sound of Thunder is a 2005 science fiction thriller film directed by Peter Hyams, and starring Edward Burns, Catherine McCormack and Ben Kingsley. It is a co-production film between the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, and the Czech Republic. The film is based on the short story of the same name by Ray Bradbury. It is about `` time tourists '' who accidentally interfere too much with the past, completely altering the present. It failed at the box office, earning $11 million against a production budget of $80 million. It received negative reviews from critics. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 4 Video games 5 Release 5.1 Critical reception 5.2 Box office 6 References 7 External links Plot In Chicago, 2055, the Time Safari company offers the ability for people to hunt dinosaurs in the past via time travel technology. As a precaution against the potential change of the past, the company preys only on the dinosaurs who would otherwise die of natural causes and keeps the clients from stepping off the designated path. Because of the dangers of interfering with the time line, the company 's activities are vocally attacked by Sonia Rand, the developer of the time machine software TAMI, who feels scorned for not receiving credit and fears they may alter the past through their activities. A trip with clients Eckels and Middleton goes afoul when the gun carried by team leader Travis Ryer fails to go off. The dinosaur, an Allosaurus, rushes the group, scattering the clients. Ryer kills the dinosaur, regroups the clients and returns to 2055, unaware that Middleton had stepped on a butterfly. The next day, they hear reports of global increases in temperature and humidity, and Ryer observes a sudden increase in plant life. On their next trip, they find that the Allosaurus they intend to hunt is already dead when they arrive and the volcano erupting much sooner. They quickly return and report the changes, and the government shuts down Time Safari to investigate. Ryer learns from Rand they are being struck by `` time waves '' that cause drastic alterations to the city as they pass due to something that happened on a previous expedition. Ryer and Rand narrowly escape a building after a time wave causes the appearance of thousands of beetles and a tree bursting through its structure. Rand warns that more time waves can be expected, and each will affect more advanced life forms, people being the last. They return to Time Safari to try to fix what has gone wrong along with the government. They are struck by another time wave that leaves the city without power and now covered by dense vegetation. Evaluating the machine 's logs, they find that the Eckels / Middleton expedition had come back a few grams heavier and that the bio-filter was turned off. They recognize that they can use the time machine to go back to intercept their past selves so as to prevent whatever happened, but will only have a few seconds to act, and so must work to figure out who they need to stop. The Time Safari finds their equipment and gear free of anything, so Ryer and Rand lead a group through the city - now filled with evolved and deadly Baboonlizards and other new hazards that kill some of their party members - to find Eckels and Middleton. Eckels is safe but asserts he remained on the path, while Middleton, poisoned by the new wildlife, takes his life before they can stop him. However, they are able to find a dead butterfly on the sole of the suit he used for the safari. The party makes it back to Time Safari after more time waves hit, now finding the time machine partially underwater and unusable. Rand obtains the hard drive containing the TAMI software with plans to use it with the nearby university 's particle accelerator as a substitute time machine. Ryer and Rand are the only two survivors once they finally make it to the university, Rand noted that the appearance of simian - like Babboonlizards from the latest time wave means the next one will wipe away humanity. Rand prepares the accelerator and stays behind while Ryer goes through the time portal, just as the last time wave hits turning Rand into a humanoid catfish - like creature. Ryer catches up to the previous expedition, catches Middleton to prevent him stepping on the butterfly, tells Jenny the bio-filter is off at the same time asking her to give his earlier self a recording of the events he has witnessed. The expedition returns without incident to the future they had left. Ryer shares the footage with Rand. Cast Edward Burns as Travis Ryer Catherine McCormack as Sonia Rand Ben Kingsley as Charles Hatton Jemima Rooper as Jenny Krase David Oyelowo as Marcus Payne Wilfried Hochholdinger as Dr. Lucas August Zirner as Clay Derris Corey Johnson as Christian Middleton Heike Makatsch as Alicia Wallenbeck Armin Rohde as John Wallenbeck William Armstrong as Ted Eckels Production The film, announced in 2001, was originally going to be directed by Renny Harlin, star Pierce Brosnan in the main role, and be shot in Montreal. Harlin was fired over a disagreement with Ray Bradbury. Brosnan left the project as well and was replaced by Edward Burns. After Franchise Pictures went bankrupt during post-production, the remaining backers provided only $30 million to work with, out of the $80 million originally allocated. Previsualization software was used. Video games A video game based on the film was released for the Game Boy Advance. It also had been considerably delayed, and ended up coming out slightly before the film, in March 2005. It was an overhead shooter with some driving stages, and included support for co-op and deathmatch multiplayer via link cable. A third - person action - adventure shooter based on The Thing engine was being developed by Computer Artworks for BAM ! Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox, but ended up being cancelled. Its plot differed from that of the film : the changes in the course of evolution were not an accident, but acts of terrorism caused by a Luddite cult. The `` present '' time was also changed to 2038. The game was to have nine missions taking place in both the past and present. Real - life bands would have been hired to provide the music. Release Critical reception The film was panned by critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 6 % score based on 98 reviews, with an average rating of 2.8 / 10. The site 's consensus states : `` Choppy logic and uneven performances are overshadowed by not - so - special effects that makes the suspension of disbelief a nearly impossible task. '' Common criticisms against the film included its poor special effects, uninvolved performances, scientific errors and Ben Kingsley 's hair. The Boston Globe stated `` The combination of awful special effects and mediocre acting created this catastrophe, '' and it included the film in its list of `` Box Office Bombs ''. Roger Ebert stated that while he `` can not endorse it, ( he ) can appreciate it '' as a film that is bad because it `` want ( s ) so much to be terrific that ( it ) explode ( s ) under the strain. '' Box Office Due to negative reviews and lack of promotion, the production grossed only $1,900,451 in the United States and $9,765,014 elsewhere for a worldwide total of $11,665,465. References ^ Jump up to : `` A Sound of Thunder ''. www.filmcommission.cz. Retrieved 5 August 2016. ^ Jump up to : A Sound of Thunder at Box Office Mojo Retrieved February 2, 2013. Jump up ^ `` Renny Harlin and Pierce Brosnan Hear A Sound of Thunder - IGN ''. Ca.ign.com. December 19, 2000. Retrieved March 17, 2014. Jump up ^ `` Producer 's Nightmare : A Sound of Thunder - 2005 - Peter Hyams ''. Producersnightmare.blogspot.ca. Retrieved March 17, 2014. Jump up ^ `` A Sound of Thunder ''. CGSociety. Retrieved March 17, 2014. Jump up ^ `` ' A Sound of Thunder ' : Combining the Futuristic with the Prehistoric ''. Animation World Network. 2005 - 09 - 02. ^ Jump up to : `` A Sound of Thunder - IGN ''. Ca.ign.com. December 5, 2002. Retrieved March 17, 2014. Jump up ^ `` A Sournd of Thunder ''. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved November 22, 2015. Jump up ^ A Sound of Thunder -- Movie -- Review -- The New York Times Jump up ^ A Sound of Thunder Movie Review, DVD Release -- Filmcritic.com Archived August 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ MovieJuice : A Sound of Thunder Jump up ^ `` Movies That Were Box Office Bombs ''. boston.com. August 2, 2006. Jump up ^ Ebert, Roger ( February 5, 2013 ). Roger Ebert 's Movie Yearbook 2007. Andrews McMeel Publishing. pp. 648 --. ISBN 9780740792199. Retrieved November 22, 2015. External links A Sound of Thunder on IMDb A Sound of Thunder at Box Office Mojo A Sound of Thunder at Rotten Tomatoes A Sound of Thunder at Metacritic Films directed by Peter Hyams Rolling Man ( 1972 ) Goodnight, My Love ( 1972 ) Busting ( 1974 ) Our Time ( 1974 ) Peeper ( 1975 ) Capricorn One ( 1978 ) Hanover Street ( 1979 ) Outland ( 1981 ) The Star Chamber ( 1983 ) 2010 ( 1984 ) Running Scared ( 1986 ) The Presidio ( 1988 ) Narrow Margin ( 1990 ) Stay Tuned ( 1992 ) Timecop ( 1994 ) Sudden Death ( 1995 ) The Relic ( 1997 ) End of Days ( 1999 ) The Musketeer ( 2001 ) A Sound of Thunder ( 2005 ) Beyond a Reasonable Doubt ( 2009 ) Enemies Closer ( 2013 ) Ray Bradbury Bibliography Novels The Martian Chronicles ( 1950 ) Fahrenheit 451 ( 1953 ) Dandelion Wine ( 1957 ) Something Wicked This Way Comes ( 1962 ) The Halloween Tree ( 1972 ) Death Is a Lonely Business ( 1985 ) A Graveyard for Lunatics ( 1990 ) Green Shadows, White Whale ( 1992 ) From the Dust Returned ( 2001 ) Let 's All Kill Constance ( 2002 ) Farewell Summer ( 2006 ) Short stories `` The Scythe '' ( 1943 ) `` The Lake '' ( 1944 ) `` Frost and Fire '' ( 1946 ) `` The Million Year Picnic '' ( 1946 ) `` The Small Assassin '' ( 1946 ) `` I See You Never '' ( 1947 ) `` Fever Dream '' ( 1948 ) `` The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl '' ( 1948 ) `` The Long Years '' ( 1948 ) `` Mars Is Heaven ! 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'' ( 2003 ) Collections Dark Carnival ( 1947 ) The Illustrated Man ( 1951 ) The Golden Apples of the Sun ( 1953 ) The October Country ( 1955 ) A Medicine for Melancholy ( 1959 ) The Day It Rained Forever ( 1959 ) The Small Assassin ( 1962 ) R Is for Rocket ( 1962 ) The Machineries of Joy ( 1964 ) The Autumn People ( 1965 ) The Vintage Bradbury ( 1965 ) Tomorrow Midnight ( 1966 ) S Is for Space ( 1966 ) Twice 22 ( 1966 ) I Sing the Body Electric ( 1969 ) Ray Bradbury ( 1975 ) Long After Midnight ( 1976 ) The Fog Horn & Other Stories ( 1979 ) The Last Circus and the Electrocution ( 1980 ) The Stories of Ray Bradbury ( 1980 ) The Fog Horn and Other Stories ( 1980 ) Dinosaur Tales ( 1983 ) A Memory of Murder ( 1984 ) The Toynbee Convector ( 1988 ) Classic Stories 1 ( 1990 ) Classic Stories 2 ( 1990 ) The Parrot Who Met Papa ( 1991 ) Selected from Dark They Were, and Golden - Eyed ( 1991 ) Quicker Than the Eye ( 1996 ) Driving Blind ( 1997 ) Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories ( 2001 ) One More for the Road ( 2002 ) Bradbury Stories : 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales ( 2003 ) The Cat 's Pajamas : Stories ( 2004 ) A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories ( 2005 ) The Dragon Who Ate His Tail ( 2007 ) Summer Morning, Summer Night ( 2007 ) A Pleasure to Burn ( 2010 ) The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury ( 2011, 2014 ) Plays The Meadow ( 1947 ) The Flying Machine : A One - Act Play for Three Men ( 1953 ) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and Other Plays ( 1972 ) Pillar of Fire and Other Plays ( 1975 ) The Martian Chronicles ( 1986 ) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit ( 1986 ) Fahrenheit 451 ( 1986 ) Dandelion Wine ( 1988 ) The Veldt ( 1988 ) Adaptations It Came from Outer Space ( 1953 ) Moby Dick ( 1956 screenplay ) `` I Sing the Body Electric '' ( 1962 ) The Picasso Summer ( 1969 ) The Illustrated Man ( 1969 ) The Martian Chronicles ( 1980 miniseries ) The Electric Grandmother ( 1982 ) Something Wicked This Way Comes ( 1983 ) Bradbury 13 ( radio series, 1983 - 84 ) The Ray Bradbury Theater ( TV series, 1985 - 86, 1988 - 92 ) The Halloween Tree ( 1993 ) Dandelion Wine ( 1997 ) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit ( 1998 ) A Sound of Thunder ( 2005 ) Ray Bradbury 's Chrysalis ( 2008 ) The Whispers ( 2015 ) Miscellaneous Futuria Fantasia ( 1939 - 1940 ) The Mummies of Guanajuato ( 1978 ) Zen in the Art of Writing ( 1990 ) It Came from Outer Space ( 2003 book ) Related Spaceship Earth Bradbury Landing Ray Bradbury Award Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A_Sound_of_Thunder_(film)&oldid=793171291 '' Categories : 2005 films 2000s science fiction films 2000s thriller films Films based on works by Ray Bradbury American films American science fiction films American thriller films British films British science fiction films British thriller films Czech films Czech action films Czech science fiction films German films German science fiction films German thriller films Dinosaur films English - language films Mandarin - language films Film scores by Nick Glennie - Smith Films adapted from science fiction short stories Films adapted into video games Films based on short fiction Films directed by Peter Hyams Films set in 2055 Films set in Chicago Films set in prehistory Films shot in the Czech Republic Franchise Pictures films Post-apocalyptic films Science fiction thriller films Screenplays by Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer Time travel films Warner Bros. films Hidden categories : Webarchive template wayback links Use mdy dates from June 2016 Talk Article Talk More Contents About Wikipedia In other projects Wikiquote Deutsch Español فارسی Français Italiano Magyar Bahasa Melayu Nederlands 日本 語 Polski Português Română Русский ไทย Українська Edit links This page was last edited on 31 July 2017, at 02 : 43. 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