Timeline (film)
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| Directed by | Richard Donner |
| Produced by |
Lauren Shuler Donner Jim Van Wyck Richard Donner |
| Screenplay by |
Jeff Maguire George Nolfi |
| Based on |
Timeline by Michael Crichton |
| Starring |
Paul Walker Frances O'Connor Gerard Butler Billy Connolly David Thewlis Anna Friel Neal McDonough Matt Craven Ethan Embry Michael Sheen Lambert Wilson Marton Csokas Rossif Sutherland |
| Music by |
Brian Tyler Jerry Goldsmith (unused score) |
| Cinematography | Caleb Deschanel |
| Edited by | Richard Marks |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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116 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $80 million |
| Box office | $43.9 million |
Timeline is a 2003 science fiction adventure film directed by Richard Donner, based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. A team of present-day archaeologists are sent back in time to rescue their professor from medieval France in the middle of a battle. It stars Paul Walker, Frances O'Connor, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly, David Thewlis and Anna Friel among others.
Jerry Goldsmith composed the original score, which would have been his last before his death in 2004, but it was replaced with a new score by Brian Tyler, after the first cut was re-edited and Goldsmith's increasing health problems did not allow him to continue. The film was poorly received by critics and was a box office failure.
Professor Edward Johnston leads an archaeological study of the village of Castelgard near LaRoque Castle in Dordogne, France, the site of the 1357 hanging of Lady Claire, sister to Arnaut de Cervole; her martyrdom led the French to win the Hundred Years War against the English. Johnston's team includes Scottish archaeologist André Marek, Johnston's students Kate Erickson, Josh Stern, and François Dontelle, and his son Chris who is infatuated with Kate. While excavating a nearby monastery, they find a sarcophagus with the remains of a French knight with a lopped ear holding the hand of his lady, an unheard-of practice for the time. Johnston travels to the American headquarters of the ITC Corporation, their sponsor, to question if they have tampered with the site. The students later discover a pair of Johnston's bifocals and a note begging for help, though both date over 600 years old. When they contact ITC, the company invites them to their headquarters.
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