Explorers

Adventure, Family, Science Fiction

Bradley Gregg	Steve Jackson's Gang
Ethan Hawke	Ben Crandall
River Phoenix	Wolfgang Muller
Bobby Fite	Steve Jackson
Georg Olden	Steve Jackson's Gang
Chance Schwass	Steve Jackson's Gang
Amanda Peterson	Lori Swenson
Danny Nucci	Nasty Kid at School
Jason Presson	Darren Woods
Dana Ivey	Mrs. Müller

Director	Joe Dante
Producer	Tom Jacobson; Michael Finnell; David Bombyk; Edward S. Feldman
Writer	Ethan Hawke; Eric Luke

“Explorers” is about three separate kids, Ben Crandall (Ethan Hawke), Wolfgang Müller (River Phoenix) and Darren Woods (Jason Presson) who are all of different walks of life who all have the same dreams about a circuit board. Together the three of them spend time designing the circuit board and discover it’s the plans for a space ship and an outer protective bubble shell. The shell is for when the ship is complete they can maintain an atmosphere within their ship. Once the ship, the Thunder Road is constructed they venture off into space only to come face to face with the aliens who aren’t exactly what they seemed to be.