First Trailer Pops Up for Doug Liman's 'Jumper'
Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, 20th Century Fox, Movie Marketing, Trailers and Clips
It's a sci-fi action flick starring Hayden Christensen, and it's called Jumper. Sound like something you'd want to see? Eh, maybe. But if I went on to explain that the flick comes from the director of Go, The Bourne Identity and Mr. & Mrs. Smith ... and all of a sudden the movie sounds just a little more intriguing. (To me, anyway. I'm a Doug Liman fan.) Based on the novel by Steven Gould -- and adapted for the screen by the eclectic team of David S. Goyer, Simon Kinberg and Jim Uhls -- Jumper is about a young adult who has the power of teleportation. Which leads to all sorts of espionage mayhem and chases and such.Co-starring alongside the former Anakin Skywalker are Diane Lane, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson, Tom Hulce, Michael Rooker and Samuel L. Jackson in a wig that looks like white astroturf. Fox presently has Jumper scheduled for that coveted February 15 release date, but if you'd like to click through the newly-updated official site, please do so right here. The brand-new trailer is also included, so stop back and share your thoughts. I hate to sound so negative, but I'm getting a distinct Operation: Stormbreaker vibe on this flick. Either way, the teleporting stuff looks really cool.
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10-10-2007 @ 3:04PM
Tim said...
It looks like they dropped the character development that made the novel so successful in favor of making an action movie out of it.
Some of the transitions looked neat but some look wrong. If memory servers, one of the big problems Davy had in the novel was that he couldn't jump anything larger than himself (not larger than another person). In the trailer, they show the car jumping- yeah whatever.
Hopefully they didn't destroy the story in the adaptation like the Dark is Rising story was destroyed in the making of the Seeker.
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