? Sign me up. I give Jake Gyllenhall a lot of shit for his puppy dog face and ill-fitting attempts at being a ladies man(all of which you'll see in abundance in Love and Other Drugs). In Source Code he's in pure action mode, as a soldier sent back in time in a continual 10 minute loop to try and figure out the source of a terrorist attack. This is Duncan Jones's follow-up to Moon, last year's old school sci-fi flick that has made him an instant favorite. The script was written by Ben Ripley, but I'm expecting big things from this mainly because Billy Ray(State of Play
, Breach
, Shattered Glass
) did some punching up on it. The guy hasn't written a bad flick in years. I wonder, since he's also adapting 24
for the big screen, if Billy Ray didn't toy with the idea of a Jack Bauer cameo. He seems like a natural fit.Source Code stars Gyllenhall, Michelle Monaghan, Jeffrey Wright, and Vera Farmiga. Look for it in theaters on April 15th, 2011. Check out the trailer below!
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.
He learns he’s part of an operation called “Beleaguered Castle,” but before he can progress any further, Goodwin starts up the machinery and suddenly Colter is back on the train, at exactly the same time he first appeared there, once again speeding through Chicago with the same group of commuters. Colter figures he’s in some kind of simulation exercise, with his task being to find the bomber on board the train before it goes off again. Living the explosion over and over, Colter must uncover the identity of the bomber, while also figuring out what the alternative universe of “Beleaguered Castle” is. Adding to the puzzle, Colter uses the second chance opportunities to make peace with his father, and to find romance with a fellow passenger on the train.
