Duncan Jones had an incredibly successful first outing as writer/director with last year’s MOON. Now story details are starting to leak of his eagerly anticipanted second feature, SOURCE CODE, lead by Jake Gyllenhaal.
At the American Film Market a lengthy and spoiler leadened synopsis has been released, outlining the entire film. But first below is the basic idea;
A solider is involved in a experiment where his consciousness is projected into the body of a passenger of a train that was a target of a terrorist attack. He relieves the explosive again and again trying to work out the origin of the attack.
Now below is the very detailed outline of the film so stop reading if you don’t want any spoilers;
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.
SOURCE CODE will be out April 15 2011. Thanks to Slash Film and Comingsoon.net for the synopsis.
