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‘Souce Code’ follows decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal), who waking up in the body of an unknown man, discovers he’s part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. In an assignment unlike any he’s ever known, he learns he’s part of a government experiment called the “Source Code,” a program that enables him to cross over into another man’s identity in the last 8 minutes of his life. With a second, much larger target threatening to kill millions in downtown Chicago, Colter re-lives the incident over and over again, gathering clues each time, until he can solve the mystery of who is behind the bombs and prevent the next attack. Filled with mind-boggling twists and heart-pounding suspense, ‘Source Code’ is an exhilarating action-thriller directed by Duncan Jones (Moon) also starring Michelle Monaghan (Eagle Eye, Due Date), Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air, The Departed), and Jeffrey Wright (Quantum of Solace, Syriana). Check out what the films lead star Jake Gyllenhaal had to say about the film. ‘Source Code’ is in cinemas now.

How did you get involved with Source Code?

Jake Gyllenhaal: I was sent the script by Mark Gordon and Jordan Wynn, who developed the movie. I had made another movie with Mark Gordon, he and I are pretty close. He sent me the script and I read it, I thought it was just incredibly engaging.  I read the first fifteen pages of the script, much like the first five minutes of the movie, and I was totally engrossed, I then actually put it down because I thought it wouldn’t be as good for the next hundred pages (laughs). I eventually did pick it up soon after because I couldn’t leave it that long, it just got better and better. I just thought I want to do this, I totally want to do this, even though at the time there wasn’t even a director, but I said it really depends on who’s going to direct this movie. The fact that there’s a real character in here, hopefully we can develop him. Someone who has real stuff going on. Not just a guy in the middle of a catastrophe. They agreed and asked me “who would be my choice?” I answered “someone like Duncan Jones,” because I had just seen ‘Moon’ and I just thought it was extraordinary. So they said “ok, let’s send it to him and see what he thinks,” so we ended up sending it to him, I had already met with him in a general sort of meeting, we really got along, I never thought he’d want to do it (laughs). But then five days later we got a call saying Duncan Jones wants to make this movie, then just four months later we’re making the movie. It was just unreal.

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