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Set for production in the first quarter of next year is sci-fi thriller Source Code with Duncan Jones (Moon) set to direct and Jake Gyllenhaal in the starring role. This puts Mute and Escape From The Deep to one side, at least for a while but it at definitely seems like a fascinating story and well worth Jones' attentions as well as being in-step with his noted inspirations. The Source Code script has had some revisions done by Billy Ray but was originally written by Ben Ripley. Having read Ripley's draft, I can give you some information on the film's clever premise. None of this is spoiler material, I'd argue, as it all comes clear in the first fifteen minutes or so. In the first scene, a man named Colter - Gyllenhaal's character - wakes up on a train headed through the New Jersey countryside. He has no idea how »
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