Granted this film won't be out until February 2005, but in keeping with our generation's super-hero craze, production companies are fueling our Heroes/X-Men obsession. One of the most beloved characters on the NBC show is the time-traveling, tele-porting, time-stopping Hiro Nakamura, while one of the most anticipated characters in the X-Men films was the teleporting Nightcrawler. So if you love those characters and/or think their power is awesome, you just might give Steven Gould's novel Jumper a chance. Doug Liman, director of the Bourne trilogy and Mr & Mrs. Smith, is directing, and Simon Kinberg, writer of Mr. & Mrs. Smith and X-Men: The Last Stand, is the screenwriter.
So obviously this is one of those films where stunts and cinematography take precedence over casting and/or plot. But if those two other aspects were placed on a hierarchy scale, plot would certainly go first. As it turns out the novel, like Heroes, is about a guy who has a genetic anomaly that allows him to teleport. Being a 20-something year old, he uses it for frivolous things like getting from the couch to the refrigerator or sunbathing on an Egyptian pyramid. Unfortunately, there are consequences for every time that he "jumps," and Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot) and Samuel L. Jackson are there to inform him of what those are. Apparently, the jumpers are at war with one another--they have been for thousands of years and for some unknown reason they want him dead. Bell is a fellow jumper who is sort of...crazy, Jackson seems to be playing the bad guy with a wicked cool whip (?) that stops Hayden from jumping, and, of course, Rachel Bilson (The O.C.) is there to...get in the way. Check out the trailer:
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