Considering how much can go wrong in a filmmaker's career, it's always nice to hear a success story. Variety reports that Universal has hired Australian director Shane Abbess to helm the sci-fi thriller Source Code. Universal picked up the rights to the film back in 2007, but the project sat on the back-burner until now. Abbess is a relative newcomer who made his name directing commercials and his feature debut was the 2007 Gothic thriller, Gabriel. The film was financed, written, and directed by Abbess, and told the story of an angel in purgatory. Oh, and something about 'bringing the light' and saving souls.Code will be a time-travel story, but so far Universal is keeping the details under wraps. Ben Ripley (the writer behind such classics as Species III) has already penned a spec script, but there is no word on whether Universal will be using his draft. Originally, Topher Grace had been attached to produce and star in Code, but there was no mention of Grace in the latest notice. Code is aiming for a 2009 release, but Universal might want to stay away from May, otherwise they're going to have some stiff 'time traveling competition' in the form of Terminator 4.
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4-17-2008 @ 7:53PM
Peter Hall said...
I'm going to predict the plot right now and I bet I'm mighty close:
There is an inevitable catastrophe in the future caused by an overlooked fat finger in a piece of source code from decades earlier. A man will be sent back in time to divine the glitch from its original coder. Of course everything will be a matter of time (get it?), so he'll have mere days to solve it (despite that he could have just traveled farther into the past). And if they want to get crazy, they'll throw in some future terrorist figure who wants the catastrophe to happen and will travel back in time to off the guy tasked with saving the future.
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