http://asoundofthunder.warnerbros.com/

Just heard about this one. Preview looks pretty good, but from a nit-picky standpoint, the TRex lis too clean and shiny.
A friend of mine thought that one of the 70s or 80s TV anthology shows did a version of this Bradbury story - does that ring a bell with anyone here?

A friend of mine thought that one of the 70s or 80s TV anthology shows did a version of this Bradbury story - does that ring a bell with anyone here?

Yes, it was done as an episode of (strangely enough) THE RAY BRADBURY THEATRE.

[url]http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-3822/epid-110331/ (http://asoundofthunder.warnerbros.com/)

Looks like they took the short story as just a starting point! :eek:

There was also a dino hunt ABC TV movie of the week with Richard Boone and Joan Van Ark from the mid 70s ... no credit to Ray but I'm sure 'inspired' by THUNDER.

There was also a dino hunt ABC TV movie of the week with Richard Boone and Joan Van Ark from the mid 70s ... no credit to Ray but I'm sure 'inspired' by THUNDER.

No, that was "The Last Dinosaur", sublimely bad for either a dinosaur or Richard Boone flick. More of a rip-off of "The Land that Time forgot". No time travel, just another "Lost World".

No, that was "The Last Dinosaur", sublimely bad for either a dinosaur or Richard Boone flick. More of a rip-off of "The Land that Time forgot". No time travel, just another "Lost World".

The dinosaur ate his agent after seeing the finished tv movie.

I interviewed Peter Hyams about this movie and according to him the dino in it is an allosaur, not a T rex, so maybe that accounts for the skinniness--if not the shinyness...

No, that was "The Last Dinosaur", sublimely bad for either a dinosaur or Richard Boone flick. More of a rip-off of "The Land that Time forgot". No time travel, just another "Lost World".
I fondly remember Boone catapulting a rock at the Rex, and the rock rolling off the beast's head, as the suit's skull buckled, indented, and popped back into shape.

Worst. Dinosaur. Suit. EVER.

I fondly remember Boone catapulting a rock at the Rex, and the rock rolling off the beast's head, as the suit's skull buckled, indented, and popped back into shape.

Worst. Dinosaur. Suit. EVER.


LOL, I remember the EXACT same thing! And I was only about 13-14 last time I saw it. I remember a really cheesy 'rock" song about the 'last dinosaur" too!

"There are no more,
He's the last dinosaur!"

I interviewed Peter Hyams about this movie and according to him the dino in it is an allosaur, not a T rex, so maybe that accounts for the skinniness--if not the shinyness...Could be - in the original Bradbury it was a T Rex.

http://www.sba.muohio.edu/snavely/415/thunder.htm

I interviewed Peter Hyams about this movie and according to him the dino in it is an allosaur, not a T rex, so maybe that accounts for the skinniness--if not the shinyness...

Peter Hyams directing? Well there goes what little hope I had for the movie.

I checked the IMDB.com listing. Six writers credited (not counting Bradbury). Another bad sign.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318081/combined#writers

sometimes they can take a short story and expand it into a feature without ill effects. and then on the other hand theres stuff like this.......