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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Duncan Jones’ Source Code

You take breakout filmmaker with a small scaled hit sci-fi film from Sundance (Moon), throw him a top 2007 Blacklist script (also a sci-fi flick) and hope that more money, location shooting and a formidable foursome in Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Jeffrey Wright and Vera Farmiga won’t taint the talent/process. We figure that Duncan Jones’ muscles will be good enough to handle big ideas regardless of the scale thus making this twisty/turny popcorn flick worth the detour.

Eric Lavallée

Published on January 12, 2011

#56. Source Code

Director: Duncan Jones
Writer(s): Ben Ripley
Producers: Mark Gordon, Philippe Rousselet and Jordan Wynn
Distributor: Summit Ent.

The Gist: This centers on a soldier (Jake Gyllenhaal) who, as part of an experimental government program to investigate a terrorist incident, finds himself in the body of an unknown commuter living and reliving a harrowing train bombing until he can find out who is responsible for it.….(more)

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Jeffrey Wright and Vera Farmiga

List Worthy Reasons…: You take breakout filmmaker with a small scaled hit sci-fi film from Sundance (Moon), throw him a top 2007 Blacklist script (also a sci-fi flick) and hope that more money, location shooting and a formidable foursome in Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Jeffrey Wright and Vera Farmiga won’t taint the talent/process. We figure that Duncan Jones’ muscles will be good enough to handle big ideas regardless of the scale thus making this twisty/turny popcorn flick worth the detour.

Release Date/Status?: Opening night film at SXSW. April 1st release via Summit.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).