Jake Gyllenhaal Set for Duncan Jones’ Source Code
Jake Gyllenhaal, who has been back in the limelight recently with Disney beginning its promotion on Prince of Persia, is currently in talks to star in the Duncan Jones-directed sci-fi thriller Source Code for Vendome Pictures and The Mark Gordon Co.
Source Code centers on a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown commuter and is forced to live and relive a harrowing train bombing until he can determine who is responsible for it.
Source Code had originally been set up at Universal in early 2007 when the studio bought Ben Ripley’s screenplay and attached Topher Grace to star. Universal tapped Shane Abbess to direct last year but that obviously didn’t take. The current script includes revises by Billy Ray (State of Play).
Sounds like a really intense version of Groundhog Day. Actually what I was going to say is that there was an episode of Stargate SG-1 that explored this concept and they had Jack O’Neill reliving the same mission over from his career where his close friends died. It kept getting ran over and over and each time he tried to change the outcome the they would still die just in different ways. It turned out he was caught in a simulator built by some advanced alien race and they were studying him to see how many scenarios from the same situation it would take to have the exact same outcome. I do not know if that is the same idea here but would be cool if it was and they explored the concept a little more.
Duncan Jones hit strides this year with his acclaimed Moon film with Sam Rockwell. Besides Prince of Persia, Gyllenhaal will next be seen in the drama Brothers with Toby Maguire.
