Aside from being one of the most prolific writers (over 500 published works), Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors of all time. His descriptive style is classy and damn near poetic at times. Of course, for a writer with so many works about, not all of them are gems, but Mr. Bradbury has many, many great stories out there. One of the is "A Sound of Thunder", wehich this film is based upon.
Meet Mr. Eckles, big game hunter. He has hunted it all folks, lion, bear, crocodile....So what is a big game hunter to do when he has run out of challenges? Why, head back to pre-historic times to hunt some REALLY big game. Not just any game, but T-rex himself. Like 'ol Homer in the simpsons parody of the same story, Mr. Eckles accidentily steps of the protected path onto the prehistoric ground, crushing a rare insect. When the hunting party returns, not all is as they had left it.....
Actually, in the story, the ironic twist ending is finding out Eckles had stepped on the butterfly, end of story. At six pages, the film makers needed a bit more material to run with so they have "expanded" the concepts a bit here. Apparently we get to go in depth into exactly what has happened to the world after the time accident. I am interested in seeing what they come up with, but like OG, don't hold out much hope for this being a great film. Bradbury is just so much fun to
read, and his screen adaptations have been lackluster at best so far (to be fair, the made-for-tv version of The Martian Chronicles had some brilliant moments, capturing the Bradbury feel wonderfully, but overall was a poor adaptation; I would love to see it remade today with the right crew and budget).
Time will tell.
For those interested, peep the trailer
here.