Taglines: Das Böse findet einen Weg (The evil finds a way)
Four childhood friends, Jonesy, Beaver, Pete and Henry all share a special secret. Each year, they take a trip into Maine woods. This year is different. A blizzard occurs, and they recover a man found wandering around. Unbeknownst to them,this wandering individual isn’t the only being to be found. Now they must act fast to stop the outbreak developing and to prevent the world from its doom.
Dreamcatcher is an American science fiction horror film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel of the same name. Directed by Lawrence Kasdan and co-written by Kasdan and screenwriter William Goldman, the film stars Damian Lewis, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee and Timothy Olyphant as four friends who encounter an invasion of parasitic aliens.
Although considered a flop, Dreamcatcher did break even against an estimated $68 million production budget, and while it earned only $33,685,268 in the North American domestic market, it made $75,715,436 worldwide.
In a 2012 interview, during a promotional tour for his film Darling Companion, Kasdan admitted that the commercial failure of Dreamcatcher left him “Wounded careerwise…But not so much personally. I’ve been personally wounded by other movies, where I’d written it, and thought, ‘Oh, God, the world’s not interested in what I’m interested in.’
With Dreamcatcher, the career was hurt. I was planning to do The Risk Pool with Tom Hanks. I had written the script from a great book by Richard Russo (Nobody’s Fool). And it didn’t happen. Then another one didn’t happen. Meanwhile, two years have passed here, two have passed there. That’s how you’re wounded.”
Dreamcatcher (2003)
Directed by: Lawrence Kasdan
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis, Timothy Olyphant, Tom Sizemore, Donnie Wahlberg, Reece Thompson, Giacomo Baessato, Rosemary Dunsmore
Screenplay by: William Goldman, Lawrence Kasdan
Production Design by: Jon Hutman
Cinematography by: John Seale
Film Editing by: Raúl Dávalos, Carol Littleton
Costume Design by: Molly Maginnis
Set Decoration by: Amber E. MacLeod, Rose Marie McSherry
Music by: James Newton Howard
MPAA Rating: R for violence, gore and language.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: March 21, 2003
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