Timeline (2003 film)

Timeline
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Richard Donner
Screenplay by	Jeff Maguire George Nolfi
Based on	Timeline by Michael Crichton
Produced by	Lauren Shuler Donner Jim Van Wyck Richard Donner
Starring	Paul Walker Frances O'Connor Gerard Butler Billy Connolly
Cinematography	Caleb Deschanel
Edited by	Richard Marks
Music by	Brian Tyler
Production companies	Donners' Company[1] Artists Production Group[1]
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures[1] Mutual Film Company[1] Cobalt Media Group[1]
Release date	November 26, 2003 (2003-11-26) (United States)
Running time	116 minutes[1]
Countries	United Kingdom[1] United States[1]
Languages	French[1] English[1]
Budget	$80 million[2][3]
Box office	$43.9 million[3]

Timeline is a 2003 historical 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.

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 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. The film was poorly received by critics and bombed at the box office, losing an estimated $49 million.^[4]