Jumper... 2? So, After Jumper made it to 5M listens on YouTube recently, I finally decided to go back and finish a very old attempt at making a 2nd jumper in a different rhythm. I might have a little bit of a love-hate relationship to that melody personally, hearing it for the 20.000 time, but I owe that little thing a lot of my career! And this ended up being pretty fun to make. So enjoy! Thanks for listening :)
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Jumper: Griffins Story was written as a tie-in to the film. It takes place in the film's universe, which is signifigantly different from the universe of the first two books. It is from the point of view of Griffin O'Connor (who was not in the first two books but is in the movie, a jumper whos parents are killed by paladins (jumper killers who are in the film but weren't in the books). Griffin has to escape from them and survive long enough to train himself to be able to fight back and turn the tables on the hunters who want to kill him and all the other jumpers. The book ends apparently several months (if not a couple years) before the beginning of the Jumper film. David Rice is not present in this book. A video game based off of this book was made, but it received poor reviews.
There is a short novella availble from TOR titled "Shade" which takes place just after the events of "Reflex". The forth "Jumper" novel by Steven Gould has been released and is titled "Impulse". It is actually the 3rd novel in the same timeline as the orginal two, since "Griffin's Story" takes place in a different timeline, that of the movie's. The story "Impulse" is told from the point of view of David and Millie's daughter, Cent. There is no word as of yet if there will be any further novels in this story line. But fans continue to hold out hope for more.
Jumper (film) was released in 2008. It was looseley based upon the Jumper novel by Steven Gould. It was directed by Doug Liman. Hayden Christensen played the main character, David Rice. Some of the main differences between the book and film were that in the film, there is a group of people called paladins who try to capture and kill the jumpers and that in the film, another jumper named Griffin O'Connor was added. The film recieved mostly negative reviews.
Jumper 2 has been confirmed by M. Night Shyamalan, who directed Jumper and will be returning to direct Jumper 2. Hayden Christensen will return as David Rice and steve buscemi and Jack Black as Roland Cox. Not much else is known about the movie.
A trilogy of Jumper movies has been rumored. This would mean that after Jumper 2 (which has been confirmed), there would be one more Jumper film followed by aLI G WESTSIDE2. It is likely that Doug Liman would direct the third film and that Hayden Christensen would return to play David Rice in the third film as well. However, the third film may not even be made. It is, so far, just a rumor.
In November 2005, New Regency Productions hired director Doug Liman to helm the film adaptation of the science fiction novel Jumper by Steven Gould. Screenwriter Jim Uhls was hired to rewrite an adapted screenplay by David S. Goyer.[4] However, Liman desired another rewrite and Simon Kinberg assisted in completing the script.[4] Liman said about using the novel for developing the script: "This is 100% Steven Gould's story, it's just reinvented as a movie."[5] In an interview, Gould revealed that he approved of the deviations from the novel.[5] Before filming was to begin, the studio announced plans to develop a trilogy based on the novel's premise.[6]
In April 2006, actors Tom Sturridge, Teresa Palmer, and Jamie Bell were cast for Jumper with Sturridge in the lead role.[8] The following July, actor Samuel L. Jackson was cast as Roland Cox, with producer Simon Kinberg rewriting the original screenplay draft by Goyer. Principal photography was scheduled to take place in Tokyo, Rome, Toronto, and New York.[9] Production was stopped in June 2006 after producer Tom Rothman told Liman "The lead is 18. Wouldn't the movie be better if he was 25? You have a huge movie here and adults won't go and see an 18-year-old. They'll consider it a children's movie. You could make a bigger movie than that."[10] Liman agreed on casting older actors for furthering the romantic aspect of the film.[11] In August, actor Hayden Christensen replaced Sturridge in the lead role as David just two weeks before the beginning of shooting, as the studio "became concerned about not having a more prominent actor in their trio of young stars."[12][13] After Christensen was recast for the lead role, Liman replaced Palmer with Rachel Bilson.[10][14]
The New Zealand visual effects studio Weta Digital was initially selected to assist in creating a preview clip for the 2007 Comic-Con Convention.[18] The studio's 100 employees later developed the visual effects for 300 of the 600 shots in the film.[11][18][25] In total, there are more than 100 jumps in the film, and each jump was modified based on the distance and location the character(s) jumped.[26] The jumps were developed using Nuke and Shake software;[18] many, including those to Big Ben and the Sphinx were created with Maya.[26] Weta's VFX supervisor Erik Winquist explained how the visual effects of the jumps were created: "The concept of what a jump looks like changed and evolved a little over the course of post production. There are shots in the film that use still array footage but not in the same way that we saw in The Matrix. The Matrix was largely about stopping time whereas this was about using slow shutter speeds on those still array cameras to end up with a streaky motion-blurred image as the perspective was changing, which is a pretty interesting look."[26] Other visual effects studios that assisted with the film include Hydraulx, Digital Domain, and Pixel Magic.[18] Lightwave 3D was also used for some of the movie's scenes.
Austin Chronicle's Marc Salov called the film "... pretty slick, entertaining stuff, well-crafted by Liman, edited into a tight, action-packed bundle of nerviness".[30] Empire had a verdict of "[Doug] Liman's least charismatic action movie and the least developed, but it still packs some cracking action into its brief running time and lays foundations on which a great franchise could be built".[31] Australian film reviewer David Stratton stated that "this film represents a new [watershed] in the history of the cinema because it's got no plot, it's got no characters, it's got no action scene that makes any kind of sense", and awarded it half a star out of five.[32]
Prior to the film's 2008 release, Hayden Christensen reflected on the possibility of one or more sequels: "This has definitely been set up in a way that will allow for more films, and Doug has been careful to make sure that he's created characters that will have room to grow."[11] Lucas Foster during production of the film stated in an interview: "The ideas got so large, that they really couldn't fit into, you know, one or two movies, they needed to evolve over at least three movies. So we planned the story out over three movies and then we sliced it up in such a way as to leave room for the other two movies."[5]
This was not just bad, it was epically bad. I barely ever give a film 1/10, most because I think far too many people that didn't enjoy a movie automatically go there (not to mention those that give, say, the latest sequel to their favourite childhood franchise a 1/10 if they didn't like the plot, or too much fan service, not enough fan service, etc.)Almost every film I can find some redeeming quality, no matter how small or obscure, to merit at least a 2 or 3 or 4 even if I didn't enjoy it, but I searched for anything about this one that I found positive and came up empty handed. Maybe I have a bit of bias I suppose because I'm also ticked off (1) Because the 6/10 IMDb rating with a fair amount of votes tricked me into thinking it was a legit 6/10, and (2) also ticked off at myself for not reading any of the user reviews, and hanging in too long watching this (I only made it to the end of the 2nd story of 4 apparently) thinking the script would tie things together somehow, or... something would happen to make it better.Avoid!!
Unlike most of the people, I didn't find this anthology to be cringe-worthy. But, it was completely purposeless. Rather than reviewing this as a whole, I would like to say things about the four disjointed short films in it.First one. It was the only one which justified the title of the anthology. There were some tropes that we have seen before and they have been played out in a better way and in a better context. It told the story very well, except that the ending was vague. I would've wanted to see more of it. Score : 6.9/10.Second one. The usual looping of time and stuff. It was nothing exciting and was really predictable. We have seen the thing being played out very well in "Predestination" and many other movies. Here, it's just terrible acting and expositionary dialogues. It didn't make any sense. It felt like a small scene from a movie. Within itself, it had no story. Score : 0/10.Third one. It was the best one among the four. The way things unfold are told visually rather than through expositions. This would've served as a good short film, if it wasn't a part of this anthology. The telling of the story is very good. The performances are okay. Due to its runtime, it doesn't explain the backstory properly. That's the only major drawback. It just wasn't so fitting to call it "Time Jumping" or so. Score : 8/10. Grade : A-.Fourth one. This was one of the weirdest things I have ever seen. Mere mentioning of a time leap doesn't justify a "time jump", it will just be lame. It wasn't a horror or a sci-fi stuff. Just some lame video clip. It was shortest and stupidest among all. Score : 0/10 (cringe).This anthology gave me two watchable short films and two which don't make any sense. I still think that it's a terrible idea to put all these short films in a collection which would make every one of them feel as inferior shorts.Rating for the entire anthology : 4.1/10. 2ff7e9595c
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