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Some Plot Details For Duncan Jones' SOURCE CODE!!
Merrick here...
Worst Previews has a synopsis of SOURCE CODE. This is a new picture from Duncan Jones, son of Bowie, who did such an extraordinary job directing MOON. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal as...well...read on only if you're OK knowing substantive details.
SPOILERS AHEAD:
Plot: Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes with a jolt to find himself on a commuter train heading into Chicago. Although the other passengers all seem to know him, he has absolutely no idea where - or even who - he is.
The last thing Colter remembers is flying a helicopter mission in Iraq, but here he is in someone else's life going through someone else's morning commute. Before he can do anything an express train zooms by on the opposite track and a bomb explodes, seemingly killing Colter and all the other passengers.
Colter comes to in an isolation chamber, strapped to a seat, and wearing his military flight suit. He still has no idea what's happening, except that he's being spoken to by mission controller Carol Goodwin (Vera Farmiga), who calmly recites a series of memory questions to which Colter is shocked to realize he knows the answers.
...says THIS write up at Worst Previews, which goes into quite a bit more detail about what we can expect from Mr. Jones' newest cinematic tale - due in theaters April 2011.
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Stupid WB picking frat boy Snyder for 'Superman' over Jones, which could well have been the equivalent of Nolan doing Batman Begins. Oh, well...
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The Brady Bunch episode where Duncan Jones (of the LA Rams) guest starred and played football with Peter? I wondered what he was up to!
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That site has better scoops that this one. What the hell am I doing here? Thanks for the link AICN!
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Totall Recall. Ok, cool. But you can almost write the movie and watch it in your own head already.
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Some sort of military program that trains it's soldiers to be event viewers? Predicting/ perceiving and experience either future or past events so they can provide deeper details about the events to stop or find terrorist. Is that what the plot is suggesting, that he is in a program the trains them to be Remote Viewers into events of interest?
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Nov. 8, 2010, 2:03 p.m. CST
Gyllenhaal has played many Iraq War veterans. Weird.
by Doctor_Strangepork
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Moon was one of the best things to come out this year.<P>Or was it last year? Can't fucking remember.
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he is actually dead!
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It always fucks with me. Damn you Terminology! Damn you to hell!
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Duncan Jones is the real deal, people.
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I absolutely loved 'Moon'. There was talk that it would be something of a trilogy, with a film portraying what happens when Sam when he gets to Earth coming later...Here's hoping we're still getting that. But hey, if this is any bit as good as Moon, I'm all for it....Hopefully Clint Mansell will do the music again, the score for 'Moon' was awesome....
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'Moon' was such a fresh breath of air, I dragged everyone I could find to the theater to see it...Saw it like 5 times!!! And I NEVER do that!!!! I drove like 50 miles to get the Blu-Ray the day it came out....Just can't say enough good things about Duncan Jones (so Far!)
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There's no way the ending won't be spoiled before it comes out.
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Yes, Mansell will do the music for Source Code as well.
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If I was the son of a mega-millionaire pop icon I'm sure it would be easy to get a movie made too. This sounds like a familiar plot--um...groundhog day, quantum leap, Deja Vu for the high tech terrorist investigation equipment, and any number of science fiction novels and short stories.
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what a trip.
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...He had me at, 'Some plot details for Duncan Jones'SOURCE CODE'....I was a lock to see it before, even more so now.... ...And Nightmute: aren't all plots nowadays variations of a theme, anyway? The challence is to tell a story in a new way so that it's still relevant. I'm thinking by your comments that you didn't catch Jones's last film... Hey, at least it isn't 'Teen Nightmare on Friday The 13th #23: The Remake'...
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...That was, 'Teen Nightmare on Friday The 13th #23: The Remake'...IN 3-D.....
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Props to the /film poster for that one.
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Cause it sounds like another clueless director gluing a cool name to his palimpsest of a project. (look that one up, TalkBackers). As a Linux specialist I take umbrage, as well as open up a umbrella to the crap that tech-wannabes spue.
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And it's set in the same "universe"?<p> Is the script still floating around?<p> Also I'm sure the commentary on the Bluray for Moon was the funniest I'd heard since Conan The Babarian and Total Recall's.
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Where the guy wakes up, and he's the same but the whole world is different. <p> Which one was that? <p> They were ALL like that!!!
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That's Jones' other project, 'Mute' (currently on hold) that takes place in the same universe as 'Moon'. Or 'Source Code' might take place in the same universe as well and I don't know about it...
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...if you were the son of a multimillionaire entertainer. <br>You know what wouldn't be easier, though? <p>Making a movie that's worth half a shit, let alone the best movie of the year. <p>Give credit where it's due: Jones has undeniable talent.
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someone above mentioned a trilogy I think so yea maybe they are all set in the same "universe"<p> Also has anyone seen his short movie on the Moon Bluray about a family man weapon maker assasin with some sort of space laser targeting weapon? Was pretty damn good too.
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Source Code was a script that was sold first & attached to Duncan Jones later. Can't remember how "Source Code" factors into the plot, but it does. Script is out there if you look for it.
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The only directors of genre worth paying attention to (and to some extent, Cuaron, and Nolan, though they give off the ambience of statesmen, but no where near elder)--we'll have to wait and see with Kosinski; probably also Wright, but I'm not certain if he more comedy or genre--and I haven't seen Scott Pilgrim, so let's not start that senseless argument. Would love to see a return to form from Scott and Carpenter; perhaps they should co-direct like the Beards?
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New James Bond Film, If S.Mendes doesn't end up directing, D.Jones and 007 would be Awesome!!
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I know Snyder can deliver a quick film, which is what Warners need but i still think Jones was the perfect choice. Oh well, give him The Flash instead.
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Except of course that Jones isn't a Hollywood film maker.
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Any Brits got deets?
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Moon was so fuckin' mediocre
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To: Zoe<BR><BR>I met your dad. That is the coolest dude, and he is very kind. Love Bowie Sr., and glad that he has an equally cool and talented son in you!!!!
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...the frequencies of people's souls, so they can have first witness accounts of events, like terrorist attacks, and what not, by placing one of their operative's consciousness in someone else's body--in a past event.
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So it's a future event, like remote viewing?
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you're gonna hate where it goes. Cool concept but a lot of wonky science that doesn't follow its own rules and stops making sense about halfway through. Emotionally powerful but won't hold up on repeated viewings.
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I don't care if it turns out predictable. Going by sheer amount of sci-fi we've devoured over the years, there isn't much left in terms of "original idea". Only thing one can do is add existing twists to existing plots in different ways. MOON was better than it should've been... stoked for this.
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I can't quite get behind the support for Jones. This is the 21st century but Moon was styled to feel like seventies SF, such as Dark Star and Silent Running. Well, I saw those movies, and I don't want to see the same stuff recycled. It's becoming ever more rare now to see something that isn't a take on a true trailblazing director's work. When I saw Star Wars, that felt incredibly new, as did Alien, as did Blade Runner. In recent times, I can only point to District 9 as offering a substantially original science fiction vision. Moon was too self-conscious about its influences to truly stand apart. Consider also that Jones himself has compared Mute, another planned project of his, to Blade Runner, but set in Berlin instead of LA. He's standing on someone else's shoulders, whereas Scott created his future vision from scratch. Expect neon and rain. Again.
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he discovers that the train wreck was just a projection of his own fear towards the mission............
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Nov. 9, 2010, 1:48 p.m. CST
been excited about this since i heard about it at Scriptshadow a
by ragingfluff
sounds like it's had a bit of a rewrite
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he needs a bigger budget...his dad is worth more than any other british musician (including macartney)
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