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"A Sound of Thunder" Movie This Summer
Syberghost writes "Ray Bradbury's classic short story "A Sound of Thunder" is being released thus summer as a movie. It's directed by Peter Hyams, who's done the time travel thing before, but it appears that some of the major characters from the Bradbury story aren't in the credits."
they don't accidently harm any animals in the making, wouldn't that be a shame?
Yes!
This is awesome! I have been waiting for a sci-fi remake of Sound of Music! Finaly!
No, i don't like sigs...
See there friend, if you flatten me silly, there will be absolutely no way to tell if you've changed the future irreparably! As the changes you've wrought have taken place way way way long time ago in the superpast, well before you and the rest of your crazy civilization were concieved and born, these changes existed before you went back in time to stomp on me and maybe change the entire history of forever!
Who knows! All I know is that I'm a butterfly and that I like nectar. Yum nectar!
(effa why eye, Mozart in Mirrorshades was better)
ALL HAIL THE BEAST THAT ASCENDETH FROM THE PIT WITH HIS CUTE WIDDLE NOSE =^o.o^=
AGhhh! You've just fucked up my timeline, as I was supposed to read the whole story from the link! Think before you post about the future!
Soko
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
Oh, yes, sure, Czechosolvakia ceased to exist . . . in this timeline. Who knew stepping on a snail would have such an effect?
Someone needs to go back in time and stop all these Hollywood production companies from picking up the rights to every book/classic movie on the planet and making dry/predictable over budgeted remakes/sequels. I will obviously have to see the movie too make a final judgment however I would say the majority of remakes/sequels lately have been pretty poor quality.
One of the producers is Moshe Diamant who not only produced but also wrote Simon Sez, a film with Dennis Rodman as male lead. let that sink in.
Moshe knows quality.
No one I trust more than Moshe to do justice
to a Ray Bradbury classic..
Well, Harlan Ellison wouldn't like it at all!
But at least I could read it again.From the story:
TYME SEFARI INC.
SEFARIS TU ANY YEER EN THE PAST.
YU NAIM THE ANIMALL.
WEE TAEK YU THAIR.
YU SHOOT ITT.
Wow! Bradbury predicted IRC!
The latest Slashdot meme.
And in that you are correct.
However, if it branches out, then your timeline (the one you came from) would remain intact.
Here that is clearly not the case.
Which is why the idea of a "time wave" which catches up with your timeline a little bit... just enough to make you notice that it's different, but not enough to completely wipe out humanity, thereby giving you "time" (isn't that ironic) to undo the damage, before the "time wave" fully catches up wit you. No doubt the scientists in the film will be able to calculate exactly when that happens, just so they can give us the suspenseful third act leading to the climax, when a scientist has to disable a device, right before the counter reaches zero, by cutting either the red or the green wire - but it's dark and he only has night vision goggles which makes them look the same.
The branching theory is a nice alternative in order to "fix" the grandfather paradox. In fact, evidence exists suggesting parallel universes, so if we assume for sake of argument, that you could go back in time, and you killed your own grandfather before your father was conceived, thereby erasing your existance and creating the paradox, then YOUR universe might not be the one affected... you could in fact have enabled events taking place in a parallel universe, not your own... but I'm just speculating now...
Of course, the universe wouldn't self destruct if a paradox occurred. Rather, "nature" would prevent you from causing a paradox. Thereby, you wouldn't be able to kill your grandfather, for whatever reason. Nature would see to it.
If the nature of the universe allows for timetravel, then I'm sure there are limitations as to what effect it can have on the rest of the universe.
-- This sig for rent.
Heh! I used to go out with a girl from the Czech Republic. Believe me, the first time I accidentally called it Czechoslovakia was the last time I accidentally called it Czechoslovakia.
Not something Americans need to worry about. Everyone can tell where they're from. *Ahem*
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
Shouldn't that be the GNU/Czech Republic?
-The Eponymous Mallard-