Duncan Jones’s ‘Source Code’ To Open SXSW 2011

By  · Published on December 16th, 2010

Last year, David Bowie’s son directed a film about Sam Rockwell being stranded all alone on the other side of the moon while his equipment and his mind fell apart. It was brilliant.

That’s why it’s so exciting to see that his new film Source Code will be premiering as the opening night gala feature for the SXSW Film Festival in March 2011.

The film focuses on a government program that allows agents to enter into the bodies of other people in the last moments of their lives. The program is used to make Jake Gyllenhaal relive a horrific train bombing over and over again until he can stop it from happening.

The official synopsis from the SXSW press release is as follows:

When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he 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.

It sounds like the deadliest version of Groundhog Day ever.

The film stars Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga and Jeffrey Wright.

If you can’t hang out at SXSW with us, Source Code will hit theaters on April 1, 2011, and that’s no joke.

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