The script went through a rewrite prior to filming, and the roles for the main characters were changed during production. Filmed in 20 cities and 14 countries from 2007 to 2008 and released on February 14, 2008, the film grossed $225 million worldwide and received generally negative reviews from critics, mostly because of the many changes to Gould's novel, rushed plot, and anticlimactic ending.
Plot
A young David Rice discovers he can teleport, or “jump”, after he falls through thin ice on the Huron River while retrieving a snow globe for his crush, Millie Harris. He uses the ability to escape his father's abusive household and moves to New York City, where he robs banks by teleporting into their vaults.
Eight years later, David lives luxuriously in a penthouse, spending his days jumping around the world. David is confronted by Roland, leader of the Paladins; hunters who believe Jumpers are abominations. Despite Roland using specialized weapons that can disrupt a Jumper’s teleportation abilities, David manages to escape to his hometown in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He finds Millie and also runs into his former high school bully, Mark. They fight, and David jumps him into a bank vault he had robbed years earlier. Mark is later questioned by Roland.
Meanwhile, David charms Millie into traveling spontaneously to Rome. He trespasses at the Colosseum when the guards turn them away, and while Millie is still outside the gate, he is attacked by the Paladins.
Griffin, another Jumper, follows David when they run into each other in London. Being a Paladin hunter, he explains who and what they are before leaving. David accidentally chases Griffin through his “jump scar” or wormhole, an event horizon created by the Jumper that they can pass through, ending up at his lair in the middle of a desert.
David quickly returns to Rome, where he’s arrested. After being interrogated, his mother, Mary, suddenly appears and helps him escape before the Paladins can kill him. He quickly escorts Millie to the airport, telling her he can't get on the flight with her, and then returns to Griffin’s. David follows Griffin to Tokyo, eventually convincing him to partner up to kill Roland and save Millie. They jump to the US airport, hoping to catch Millie upon arrival, but she has already gone home.
David jumps to her apartment and shows her his powers before the Paladins attack them. He quickly jumps her away to Griffin’s lair, enraging him. He explains that the Paladins' technology can keep a jumper’s jump scar open and pass through it. Roland and his team suddenly appear at Griffin’s lair and fight them. Roland pins David with electrical webbing to the wall and nearly kills him before Griffin blasts a flamethrower.
Griffin jumps to Millie’s apartment and returns the machine that keeps the scar open. However, before the scar closes, a Paladin cable pulls Millie back into her apartment. David wants to rescue her, but Griffin refuses to help, saying losing friends and family to the Paladins is simply a part of Jumper's life. He then preps a bomb to deliver back to Millie’s apartment to kill Roland. David, not wanting to endanger Millie, steals the bomb, and Griffin pursues it. They engage in a lengthy battle through multiple jump sites until they finally jump to a Chechen battlefield, where David manages to trap Griffin in tangled high-tension wires.
Returning to Millie’s apartment to confront the Paladins, they immediately trap David. Wanting to rescue Millie, he attempts to jump her entire apartment, a feat no Jumper had succeeded at until that point. David successfully jumps the apartment with Millie and the Paladins into the Huron River.
David then jumps himself, Millie, and Roland to the library, though the successive jumps render him unconscious. Millie revives him, and he jumps Roland to an isolated cave above the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, reminding him that he is different from the other jumpers as he did not kill him when he had the chance.
Later, David tracks down his mother, who is also a Paladin and has worked from the inside to protect him by hiding his information from her colleagues. He accepts that they are on opposite sides, bids farewell to her on good terms, and then jumps away with Millie.
Cast
Rachel Bilson and Hayden Christensen filming in Rome in November 2006
Hayden Christensen as David Rice, a young man who discovers the genetic spatial ability to "jump" over short and long distances enshrouded by thin, black smoke. He also is a latent telekinetic, an additional hereditary ability that activates whenever he is stressed and cannot jump.
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]
While other films tend to use only one storyboard artist, Jumper required six, who each worked on an individual action sequence. The artists were given specific instruction on the rules of the teleportation used in the film, to ensure accuracy in the storyboarding. One of them, Rob McCallum, reflected on the instructions: "I was just thinking, 'How would a guy that can teleport fight?' So you were really pushing yourself to try to think of inventive, cool, spectacular ways that you could use this jumping talent that these characters have."[7]
Casting
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]
Filming
We'd walk in at dawn with the sun coming up so Doug could get the light he wanted, and it was just beautiful, not a soul in there.
In September 2006, Jumper was filmed at various locations in Peterborough, Ontario and principal photography began in Toronto in October.[4][15] In December 2006, Liman negotiated with the Rome Film Commission for rare access to film for three days in the Colosseum. The scene in the Colosseum was originally written for the Pantheon, where exterior shots were also filmed. The crew was required to keep equipment off the ground by using harnesses and had to rely on natural light for filming.[16] Filming took place for 45 minutes in the morning and in the evening so as not to disturb the public touring the amphitheater throughout the day.[17] In order to maximize the short period for filming, four steadicams were set up to ensure time was not wasted in reloading the camera.[10] A visual effects supervisor explained how visual effects were needed for various aspects after filming: "There were three kinds of shots: there were shots where they were able to get most of what they needed in the Collosseum [sic] itself; and then there were shots on a set that needed extensions beyond the limits of the set; and then there were shots where we needed to create the Coliseum basically from scratch."[18] After filming in Rome, scenes were filmed in Toronto during December 2006 to January 2007 and wrapped at the Canadian location on January 19.
On January 26 in Toronto, 56-year-old David Ritchie, a set dresser, was fatally struck by frozen debris while dismantling an outdoor set in wintry conditions.[4][19] Another worker was injured and was sent to a hospital with serious head and shoulder injuries.[20] After Toronto, the cast and crew traveled to Tokyo to film scenes. One scene required over 30 shoots as the scene could only be filmed in between traffic light changes.[10] As a result of director Liman insisting Christensen perform his own stunts, the actor injured his hand, split open his ear, and developed a hyperdilated pupil that required hospital care while filming various scenes.[11][21] In February 2007, the next filming site was set up at Gallup Park in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Sixty students from the nearby Huron High School were cast as extras for the film.[22] Since additional filming was required of the area, twenty other students were used for a day of filming in September.[23] Altogether, filming took place in 20 cities in 14 countries.[24]
Visual effects
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.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 15% based on 171 reviews, with an average rating of 4.00/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "Featuring uninvolving characters and loose narrative, Jumper is an erratic action pic with little coherence and lackluster special effects."[27]Metacritic gives the film an average score of 35 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[28] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.[29]
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]
The film was released on February 14, 2008 in the United States and Canada, in the hopes of pulling in business on Valentine's Day.[34] The film was targeted at an audience of both males and females below the age of 25.[2]Jumper grossed $27.3 million on 4,600 screens in 3,428 theaters from Friday to Sunday, ranking first for the weekend at the box office.[2][35] In its first weekend, the film set the record for the largest February release in Korea and had the first place position in 11 of the 30 markets it was released in.[36] For the first two weekends of its release, the film maintained its number one position in international markets, while slipping to the second position in the United States to the release of Vantage Point.[37] The film's worldwide gross is $221,231,186 with $80,172,128 from the box office in the United States and Canada and $142,059,058 from other territories.[3] It was the 28th highest-grossing film worldwide for 2008.[38]
The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in North America on June 10, 2008 and internationally on June 16.[41] Special features include a commentary, deleted scenes, an animated graphic novel, featurettes, and a digital copy allowing consumers to watch the film on portable devices.[41]
Video game
A video game titled Jumper: Griffin's Story was made for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, and Wii consoles. The storyline focuses on the character Griffin as he attempts to avenge the death of his parents. Nicholas Longano of the video game publisher Brash Entertainment stated, "From the very first script read, we knew this had to be made into a game. The teleportation elements make for some very compelling gameplay."[42] The game was released on February 12, 2008, two days before the film's wide release.[43]GameRankings gave the Xbox 360 version of the game a 28% positive rating, based on 12 reviews.[44] The PlayStation 2 version received a 35% positive rating while the Wii version had a 23% positive rating.[44] Daemon Hatfield of IGN reviewed the Xbox 360 version and gave it a negative review: "Low production values, monotonous gameplay, and lackluster visuals make this a story you can jump past."[45]
Novel tie-ins
Steven Gould, the author of Jumper and Reflex also wrote Jumper: Griffin's Story as a tie-in for the film. The novel, released on August 21, 2007, focuses on the character Griffin which was created by screenwriter David S. Goyer specifically for the film. Because Griffin had not appeared in the two prior novels, Gould developed Jumper: Griffin's Story as a backstory of the character's early childhood before the film. When writing the novel, Gould had to work closely with a producer of the film to ensure that the story did not conflict with the film's premise.[46]
Oni Press released a graphic novel, Jumper: Jumpscars, that portrays several backstories related to the film.[47] The novel was released on February 13, 2008, one day before the film's wide release. A publisher for Oni Press commented on the tie-in to the film, stating: "The world that was being built around these characters was so well-realized and the mythology so interesting that other stories about this conflict would be plentiful and add to what the filmmakers were building."[47] The novel was written by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir and illustrated by Brian Hurtt.
In November 2016, the re-illustrated covers of the Skulduggery Pleasant novel series by Derek Landy, done by Tom Percival to commend the series' 10th anniversary, had its characters modelled off of real-life celebrity figures, with "the last teleporter" Fletcher Renn on the cover of The Faceless Ones visually based on promotional stills of Hayden Christensen as David Rice from Jumper.
Potential sequel
Author Steven Gould's second novel in the Jumper series, Reflex, was published in 2004 (by 2014, two more Gould novels in the series have been published).
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]
In response to the film's box office performance, director Doug Liman has spoken of his ideas for a sequel. Among them are that Jumpers can reach other planets and travel in time, as well as their capacity for espionage. He has also stated that Rachel Bilson's character would learn how to jump (hinted by David falling unconscious before the jump from the river to the library), just as in Gould's sequel, Reflex.[48] However, as of 2023[update], no further updates were given for a sequel.
^Laporte, Nicole; Gabriel Snyder (October 15, 2006). "Bilson joins Jumper". Variety. Archived from the original on September 26, 2008. Retrieved May 5, 2009.
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