This is apparantely a new trailer for Moon director
Duncan Jones' sophomore sci-fi effort
Source Code, but I can't help but feel, like the conventions of the film itself, that I have seen this all before. And with Matt Damon's Adjustment Bureau opening March 4th, maybe I will soon enough? Source Code premieres at SXSW in just over two weeks and Summit have released this "new" trailer at
AOL just to remind that this film exists and I imagine when it plays on March 11th, they will know for sure whether their
Jake Gyllenhaal led film is one worth ploughing last minute marketing money into before it opens April 1st. Or maybe they are keeping their cards close to the chest in order to surprise us? The premise of Source Code is that of
Groundhog Day meets
Twelve Monkeys sprinkled with a bit of
Deja Vu. Jake Gyllenhaal stars a soldier on a Government experimental program where technology has been invented that can transport a human inside another persons body during the last 8 minutes of their life. On this particular day Gyllenhaal is transported into the body of an unknown commuter just 8 minutes before one of the passengers is supposed to blow up the train. Gyllenhaal keeps replaying these 8 minutes and blowing up in the process until he can stop the terrorist, and save the woman he has formed a connection with. Supporting roles here are taken by Michelle Monaghan,
Vera Farmiga and
Jeffrey Wright.
Ben Ripley (
Species III) wrote the script which was re-written by
Billy Ray (
State Of Play). We're holding onto the fact that Summit have cut the most commercial trailer they could have out of Duncan Jones' ideas, and the final product will be much more like Moon than a cheap rate Quantum Leap as it comes off as.