Timeline Page #4

Synopsis: In this case, a group of archaeologists and combat experts led by Paul Walker and Frances O'Connor use a "3-D fax machine" (so much for technobabble!) to time-travel back to France in 1357, in hopes of retrieving Walker's father and returning safely to the present. No such luck! Fending for themselves against marauding hordes of medieval French warriors at war with the invading British, these semi-intrepid travelers find their body count rising, and the deadline for their return home is rapidly approaching.
Director(s): Richard Donner
Production: Paramount Pictures
 
IMDB:
5.6
Metacritic:
28
Rotten Tomatoes:
11%
PG-13
Year:
2003
116 min
$19,375,474
Website
590 Views


lf l knew, l'd explain it, All l know

is that the ink is 600 years old,

l know, This is my father,

This is him,

- He's just playing a prank,

- No! No, there is no way

he would risk contaminating the site

as a joke, He just wouldn't,

- Did you carbon-date the ink?

- Of course,

- There's got to be another reason,

- l did it three times,

Like l just said,

your father wrote that note,

but he wrote it 600 years ago,

l don't care about lTC's policies,

l'm his son, l wanna talk to him now,

l found the professor's glasses,

They were on his desk,

lt's a perfect match, Look,

We should do an optical test

to make sure,

l'm sick of this, Either somebody

tell me where Professor Johnston is

or l report a kidnapping

to the authorities,

Have l made myself clear?

Just tell us when and where,

What is it?

Doniger's sending a plane for us,

We're going to New Mexico?

Let's pack up, guys,

Good morning,

Steven Kramer, lTC,

Frank Gordon, security,

- Where's my dad?

- You'll see your dad shortly,

- Where's Doniger at?

- Doniger's waiting inside,

- Mr, Kramer will explain everything,

- Tell me,

How come we have

a 600-year-old document

- with his handwriting?

- Pleading for help,

l'll explain as soon

as we get through security,

lTC is constantly advancing itself

in science,

30 years ago, the business world

was revolutionized with a machine

that sent documents anywhere

with the push of a button,

Doniger's vision was to do that

with 3-D objects,

- Like a fax or something?

- Exactly,

He's trying to send actual objects

from one place to another?

- Follow me,

- But that's impossible,

He would need a quantum computer

with millions of processors,

We used them to build a machine that

could fax three-dimensional objects,

l'll explain these mirrors later, lt would

put FedEx and UPS out of business,

- You actually made it work?

- Yes,

Across a room,

But we wanted to send things

across continents

so we built a bigger machine,

This is the prototype,

The prototype?

So that thing that we just passed,,,

- Exactly,

- ,,,is the real thing?

We gave it a thousand times

more power.

We tried to send something

from New Mexico

to a twin machine at a lab

in New York City,

Now, here's the interesting part,

The package never arrived

at its destination,

A few hours later,

it showed up back here,

Wait a minute, So if it went missing

between New Mexico and New York,

- where did it go in the meantime?

- We asked the same question,

So we sent out a camera

over and over,

and we got back photos of the

same location, a hillside with trees,

That's when Mr, Doniger

made the brilliant decision

to point the camera straight up,

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Jeff Maguire

Jeff Maguire (born 1952) is an American screenwriter.Regarded for his talent for writing sports films, Jeff Maguire got his first screenwriting break with his script Escape to Victory, a film about soccer directed by John Huston in 1981. His most recent contribution is Gridiron Gang, released in 2006. Maguire's most famous film is In the Line of Fire starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, for which he received a Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination for 1993. In 1990 Maguire was approached by producer Jeff Apple to develop his Secret Service agent concept into a film treatment. Maguire was in debt to his relatives and about to have his utilities turned off when his script based on Apple's concept, "In the Line of Fire," went into a bidding war between Tom Cruise, Sean Connery, and Clint Eastwood. When he received a call from Eastwood congratulating him on the completed deal (over $1,000,000.00) Jeff's wife reportedly had to return a dress so they could afford to go out to dinner to celebrate. Prior to this, various moguls had rejected and almost destroyed the story. Dustin Hoffman cleverly added the hero's guilt over failing to save JFK, then exited; Tom Cruise's people demanded this be deleted, because a 28-year-old hero would not have been around for JFK. The dead-broke writer spurned about $100,000 from Cruise, but wound up with Clint Eastwood and about $1,000,000.Jeff Maguire is a graduate of Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts. Raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, Maguire was once a railroad worker, a waiter, and a volunteer counselor with Mother Teresa's group, Missionaries of Charity, in the Pico-Union section of downtown Los Angeles, working primarily with Hispanic gangs. In the 1980s and 90s, he also frequented the famous Manhattan Beach, California video store Video Archives, where future filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary were clerks. Today, Jeff Maguire is a follower of Meher Baba and has contributed to the Meher Baba journal, Glow International.Jeff Maguire appears in In the Line of Fire briefly as a secret service officer running alongside the president's limousine. more…

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