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Dreamcatcher (2003) More at IMDbPro »

• This marks the third film that William Goldman has adapted from a Stephen King novel. The others were Hearts in Atlantis (2001) and Misery (1990).
  
  
• The character of Colonel Kurtz in the novel was changed to Colonel Curtis for the movie so the audience wouldn't regard the name as being a reference to the Apocalypse Now (1979) character, which is exactly what it is in Stephen King's novel.
  
  
• Stephen King sold the movie rights for US$1.
  
  
• There were many references to other Stephen King projects, such as: Misery (1990) (car wreck in the snow); Stand by Me (1986) (boyhood friends walking on railroad tracks); It (1990) (TV) (flashbacks showing growing friendships), etc. And of course the story taking place in Maine - Stephen King's State of birth.
  
  
• Thomas Jane did the film because his mother, a big Stephen King fan, told him to.
  
  
• Damian Lewis's alien character, Mr Grey, alludes to a poem while talking to Jones. The poem referred to is Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".
  
  
• This was the story that Stephen King wrote while he recovered from his near fatal accident. The accident is reflected in the story, especially in a graphic scene in which a major character in run down by a vehicle.
  
  
• It is well established in the movie that the alien species has been codenamed "Ripley", a reference to Sigourney Weaver's character in Alien (1979). Also Jones (or Jonesy) is the name of the cat in the same movie.
  
  
• To portray Mr. Grey speaking through Jonesy, Damian Lewis did an impression of actor Malcolm McDowell.
  
  
• The insignia on General Matheson's beret is actually a 10th Mountain Division shoulder patch, without the "MOUNTAIN" tab.
  
  
• An early deleted scene showed the boys with Josie, the mentally challenged girl they later rescue from the sewer drain.
  
  
• Because of the injuries suffered by author Stephen King, he wrote the novel in longhand.
  
  

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