Horror movie fans will probably laugh at the 2003 CGI aliens but the acting is pretty good. With a script co-written by Academy Award nominee Lawrence Kasdan ( The Empire Strikes Back 1980, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981) and Oscar winner William Goldman ( The Princess Bride 1987, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969), you’d hope so. Now, for the million-dollar question: how good is Dreamcatcher? It’s definitely watchable, that’s for sure. “Have you met my friend his name is AHHHHHHHH!!!!” Gray tries to poison the world, and it’s up to everyone else to stop him. While this is going on, half-insane military Colonel Curtis (Morgan Freeman: Unforgiven 1992) and his right-hand man, Lt Underhill (Tom Sizemore: Lock Up 1989), try to quell the alien uprising by blowing everyone and everything to hell. Gray possesses Jonesy’s body while unleashing his minions on the other three. All hell breaks loose as the alien known as Mr. They figure it out soon enough when the men reach the cabin. The only problem is an alien presence has been unleashed on Earth that was foretold years ago by their other childhood friend, Douglas “I Duddits” Cavell (Donnie Wahlberg: Dead Silence 2007).ĭuddits, born with Down Syndrome, would tell them that “Ista Gay” was coming but nobody knew what he meant. The plot of Dreamcatcher follows four childhood friends, Jonesy (Damian Lewis: Once Upon a Time In Hollywood 2019) Henry (Thomas Jane: Deep Blue Sea 1999), Beaver (Jason Lee: Dogma 1999), and Pete (Timothy Olyphant: Scream 2 1999), from Derry, Maine (yes, that Derry) who reunite for a camping trip in a log cabin. But let’s just say there’s just a bit of difference.

Twenty years later, we look back at Lawrence Kasdan’s Dreamcatcher.īefore I go any further, I should point out that the only drastic difference between the book and the movie is the ending, which I won’t spoil. A film adaptation followed in March 2003. Released in 2001, the book was a smashing success. That novel was originally going to be called Cancer, but at the behest of his wife, Tabitha, Stephen changed the title to Dreamcatcher. While he was recovering and on a heavy supply of Ox圜ontin, he hand-wrote, in cursive, a novel that was completed in less than a year. In 1999, horror writer Stephen King was seriously injured when a distracted minivan driver ran him down on Route 5 in Lovell, Maine.

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