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"A Sound of Thunder" Movie This Summer

Posted by Hemos on from the producing-the-stories dept.

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."

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  1. A whole movie? by mikeophile · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's what the Man himself has to say.

    1. Re:A whole movie? by ozzy_cow · · Score: 5, Informative

      Currently my film "A Sound of Thunder" is being filmed in Czechoslovakia

      Out of all the people that still think that Czechoslovakia is still one country, I would not expect Ray Bradbury be one of them... I mean cmon! They separated in 1993! Czech Republic and Slovakia godamn it! Two very different countries with different languages, goverments and culture.

  2. For those who don't want to read the story: by {8_8} · · Score: 5, Informative

    Quick summary: Story takes place in 2055 where time travel is possible and occurs on a daily, regulated basis. Time Safari Inc. offers hunting safaris to any point in the past. You pick an animal, they give you big guns, send you back in time and you shoot your animal dead. Hunters are kept on anti-gravity paths in order to prevent them from changing history through the so-called butterfly effect (stomping on a blade of grass may wipe out Texas in the future, etc.)

    The actual story is simple. A hunter goes back on a T-Rex safari, panics and runs off the path. He kills a butterfly in the process. The safari returns and finds the future changed for the worse. The end.