When the students contact ITC, the company invites them to its headquarters. The battle sequences used medieval reenactors. This rallied the French army, who came back to win the battle. As the three returnees activate their markers, in the present Josh and Kramer have finished the repairs after coming to learn that Doniger has attempted to sabotage their attempts; Doniger fears that when the students' stories become public, ITC will suffer great financial losses. On arrival in 1357, the team finds itself in the path of a young woman chased by English knights; the security men are killed while protecting the group, although one activated his marker shortly after priming a grenade. Later, the team returns to the Castlegard ruins, re-examine the sarcophagus, and find that Marek and Lady Claire led a prosperous life after the war and had three children: Christophe, Katherine, and François. There, the team is introduced to ITC president Robert Doniger and vice-president Steven Kramer. De Vannes orders his knights to march on LaRoque castle, and DeKere brings Johnston along. The students later discover a pair of Johnston's bifocals and a note begging for help, although both date over 600 years old. While excavating a nearby monastery, they find a sarcophagus containing the remains of a French knight with a lopped ear, holding the hand of his lady, an unheard-of practice for the time.
Marek, who has become infatuated with Lady Claire, is given a horse to rescue his friends. 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. Doniger reveals that in the process of developing teleportation technology, they locked onto a stable wormhole to 1357 Castlegard. Her martyrdom led France to win the Hundred Years War against the English. Richard Donner limited the use of CGI in the film as much as possible.[4]. The team members are stripped of their markers, and de Vannes kills François, believing he is a French spy. Composer Jerry Goldsmith, who had previously collaborated with Donner on The Omen, completed a score for the film - his final score before his death in 2004 - but it was replaced by a different score composed by Brian Tyler after Donner was forced to re-cut the film at the insistence of Sherry Lansing, the then-head of Paramount Pictures. Nach dem Tod ihres Bruders war sie eine der Erbinnen der Familie Clare. Marek manages to free himself, Lady Claire, and Johnston, while Chris helps de Cervole defeat de Vannes. He plans revenge on ITC and kills Gordon. Kate and Chris help to swing the upcoming battle in the French's favor by leading de Cervole's men through the monastery tunnels they had previously mapped to the castle. When his body arrives in the present, the grenade detonates and shatters much of the teleportation device. "[11], "These are the biggest box office bombs of all time", "Filmtracks: Timeline (Jerry Goldsmith/Brian Tyler)", "Timeline movie review & film summary (2003)", Sarah T. – Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic, Dealing: or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues, Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Timeline_(2003_film)&oldid=979215182, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 19 September 2020, at 13:45.
[2][3], On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 11% based on reviews from 142 critics. The others are imprisoned along with Johnston, who is revealed to have promised de Vannes that he can make Greek fire for the English in exchange for his life. Elizabeth de Clare (auch Lady de Clare oder Elizabeth de Burgh; * 16. [7] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade C+ on scale of A to F.[8], Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter called it "Glorious so-bad-it's-good entertainment.
The film was poorly received by critics and bombed at the box office, losing an estimated $49 million.[3]. Elizabeth de Clare, 11th Lady of Clare (16 September 1295 – 4 November 1360) was the heiress to the lordships of Clare, Suffolk, in England and Usk in Wales.She was the youngest of the three daughters of Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford and Joan of Acre, and sister of Gilbert de Clare… They are captured and brought before Lord Oliver de Vannes and his second in command, DeKere. Is the battle on April 4, 1357 in Timeline real? Robert Koehler of Variety magazine wrote: "Lacks the consistent tone, pace and point of view for either a science fiction thriller or medieval war adventure. DeKere reveals himself to Gordon and Johnston as former ITC employee William Decker; he had frequently used the teleportation device but was not told by ITC that each use damaged his DNA until it was too late, at which point he would die on a return trip.
They make their escape but are pursued by the English. During the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) she was hanged by the English.
This means Marek was always destined to go into the past, and Lady Claire was never destined to die in the battle, despite Marek's lecture stating that her death was instrumental to the French's victory. Is it real? As the battle starts, Marek is captured in his rescue attempt; Lady Claire is also kidnapped. Timeline is a 2003 American science fiction adventure film directed by Richard Donner and starring Paul Walker, Frances O'Connor, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly, David Thewlis, and Anna Friel. Based on Michael Crichton's 1999 novel of the same name, the screenplay concerns a team of present-day archaeology and history students who are sent back in time to medieval France, to rescue their professor from the middle of a battle. The students are joined by a security team including ITC's head of security Frank Gordon and two former military men.
All but Josh volunteer to go. Johnston travels to the American headquarters of the ITC Corporation, his project's sponsor, to inquire whether or not they have tampered with the site. September 1295; 4. [10] Jerry Goldsmith composed the original score, which would have been his last before his death in 2004 (his actual last score was Looney Tunes: Back in Action), but it was replaced with a new score by Brian Tyler, after the first cut was re-edited and Goldsmith's increasing health problems prevented him from continuing.
Roger Ebert gave it 2 out of 4. At the monastery, Marek, Kate, and Chris meet de Cervole and realize the woman is Lady Claire; they have changed history by saving her. Josh aids Kramer in making repairs. The site's consensus states: "This incoherently plotted addition to the time-travel genre looks and sounds cheesy". "[9] As the machine activates, Doniger races into it, attempting to block the teleportation, but instead he is sent back to 1357, where he arrives outside the castle and is presumably killed by a charging knight. The lady with him in the sarcophagus is at the end revealed to be the Lady Claire.
Timeline is a 2003 American science fiction adventure film directed by Richard Donner and starring Paul Walker, Frances O'Connor, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly, David Thewlis, and Anna Friel. Enraged, DeKere slashes off Marek's earlobe, and Marek realizes he is destined to be the knight in the sarcophagus. This atrocity made the French troops so … [6] On Metacritic the film has a score of 285 based on reviews from 32 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Chris, Kate, and Johnston safely return. Professor Edward Johnston leads an archaeological study of the village of Castlegard, near LaRoque Castle in Dordogne, France, the site of the 1357 hanging of Lady Claire, sister to Arnaut de Cervole. The volunteers are stripped of all modern technology save for pendant-shaped markers they can use to initiate their return. The team evades the knights, and the woman leads them to the English-controlled Castlegard. Based on Michael Crichton's 1999 novel of the same name, the screenplay concerns a team of present-day archaeology and history students who are sent back in time to medieval France, to rescue their professor from the middle of a battle. November 1360) war eine englische Adlige.
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