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Jumper (2008) – BMeTric: 31.0

RogerEbert.com – 1.5 stars – In a world gone horribly wrong, where actions have no consequences, where all of humanity has become unaccountably oblivious to blatant violations of the time-space continuum, where rules exist not to be broken but to be disregarded, where continuity is irrelevant… anything is possible!

Trailer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaA9wnc7mmY/

Directors – Doug Liman – (Known For: Edge of Tomorrow; American Made; The Bourne Identity; Mr. & Mrs. Smith; Swingers; Go; The Wall; Fair Game; BMT: Jumper;)

Writers – David S. Goyer (screenplay) – (Known For: Terminator: Dark Fate; The Dark Knight; The Dark Knight Rises; Batman Begins; Man of Steel; Godzilla; Blade; Dark City; Blade II; Zig Zag; Future BMT: The Unborn; The Crow: City of Angels; Kickboxer 2: The Road Back; Blade: Trinity; The Puppet Masters; Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice; BMT: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance; Jumper; Razzie Notes: Winner for Worst Screenplay for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in 2017; Notes: )

Jim Uhls (screenplay) – (Known For: Fight Club; BMT: Jumper;)

Simon Kinberg (screenplay) – (Known For: X-Men: Apocalypse; Sherlock Holmes; X-Men: Days of Future Past; Mr. & Mrs. Smith; X-Men: The Last Stand; BMT: Fantastic Four; xXx²: The Next Level; X-Men: Dark Phoenix; Jumper; This Means War; Razzie Notes: Nominee for Worst Screenplay for Fantastic Four in 2016;)

Steven Gould (novel) – (BMT: Jumper;)

Actors – Hayden Christensen – (Known For: Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith; Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones; The Virgin Suicides; In the Mouth of Madness; Life as a House; Shattered Glass; Strike!; Vanishing on 7th Street; Future BMT: Outcast; American Heist; First Kill; 90 Minutes in Heaven; Little Italy; Takers; New York, I Love You; Awake; Factory Girl; BMT: Jumper; Razzie Notes: Winner for Worst Supporting Actor in 2003 for Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones; and in 2006 for Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith; and Nominee for Worst Screen Couple in 2003 for Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones; and in 2008 for 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Awake, and Good Luck Chuck;)

Samuel L. Jackson – (Known For: Avengers: Endgame; Spider-Man: Far from Home; Goodfellas; Pulp Fiction; Captain Marvel; Avengers: Infinity War; Inglourious Basterds; Kong: Skull Island; Kingsman: The Secret Service; Jurassic Park; Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace; The Hateful Eight; Django Unchained; Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children; Coming to America; A Time to Kill; Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith; Thor; The Incredibles; Avengers Assemble; Future BMT: Cell; The Spirit; Freedomland; Kite; Barely Lethal; Meeting Evil; Oldboy; Reasonable Doubt; Star Wars: The Clone Wars; Home of the Brave; The Samaritan; No Good Deed; Sphere; Amos & Andrew; Cleaner; The Legend of Tarzan; Loaded Weapon 1; Zambezia; The Exterminator; The 51st State; Rules of Engagement; Johnny Suede; Shaft; Basic; Strictly Business; Glass; Country of My Skull; One Eight Seven; Gospel Hill; Life Itself; BMT: xXx²: The Next Level; Twisted; Jumper;)

Jamie Bell – (Known For: Rocketman; Snowpiercer; Skin; King Kong; Billy Elliot; Jane Eyre; Filth; The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn; 6 Days; Defiance; Flags of Our Fathers; The Eagle; Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool; Nicholas Nickleby; Retreat; Hallam Foe; Undertow; Future BMT: Deathwatch; Man on a Ledge; Donnybrook; Dear Wendy; BMT: Fantastic Four; Jumper; Razzie Notes: Nominee for Worst Screen Combo for Fantastic Four in 2016;)

Budget/Gross – $85,000,000 / Domestic: $80,172,128 (Worldwide: $222,231,186)

Rotten Tomatoes – 15% (25/166): Featuring uninvolving characters and loose narrative, Jumper is an erratic action pic with little coherence and lackluster special effects.

Poster – Tele-Sklog-cation

Tagline(s) – anywhere is possible.

Keyword – teleportation;

Top 10: Watchmen (2009), Avengers: Endgame (2019), John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019), Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019), Suicide Squad (2016), Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Avengers: Infinity War (2018);

Future BMT: 68.1 Supergirl (1984), 65.9 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993), 62.6 Blair Witch (2016), 60.6 A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), 59.5 Red Sonja (1985), 57.2 The Fly II (1989), 50.5 Your Highness (2011), 49.7 Masters of the Universe (1987), 37.0 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013), 36.4 The One (2001);

BMT: X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019), Gods of Egypt (2016), Warcraft: The Beginning (2016), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), Fantastic Four (2015), Super Mario Bros. (1993), Battlefield Earth (2000), The Last Witch Hunter (2015), Mortal Kombat (1995), Jumper (2008), I Am Number Four (2011), Seventh Son (2014), Howard: A New Breed of Hero (1986), Doom (2005), Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997), Alone in the Dark (2005), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)

Welcome to Earf (HoE Number 9) – The shortest path through The Movie Database cast lists using only BMT films is: Michael Rooker is No. 5 billed in Jumper and No. 4 billed in Here on Earth => 5 + 4 = 9. There is no shorter path at the moment.

Notes – David Ritchie, a set dresser on the Toronto shoot, was killed while dismantling part of the set.

The crew was allowed to film inside the Roman Colosseum for three days, under three conditions: no equipment could be placed on the ground, they could only shoot from 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., to avoid disturbing tourists, and the only lighting allowed was natural sunlight.

Eminem reportedly turned down an offer to star in the lead role. However, an MTV report quoted director Doug Liman saying his plan to have Eminem in the movie was dropped right after he met Hayden Christensen.

The movie takes place in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The high school depicted was Huron High School, where screenwriter David S. Goyer attended. Area teens were cast as extras for scenes in and around the school.

Hayden Christensen (David) and Rachel Bilson (Millie) were engaged in real life, but the pair split up in September 2017.

Due to strict moral grounds, and out of respect for the Christian martyrs, a scene of Griffin (Jamie Bell) urinating in the Colosseum, when he meets David (Hayden Christensen) for the first time, was altered by some television censors to have Griffin sitting on a big rock instead.

David mentions “King Kong” while on the Empire State Building. Jamie Bell, who played Griffin in this film, played Jimmy in King Kong (2005).

Originally, Tom Sturridge was cast as David and Teresa Palmer was cast as Millie. After two months of filming and rising production costs, Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson were re-cast as the leads.

Many parts in the film are different from the book. Some of them include the characters of Roland, Griffin, and Paladins. In the book, the main character goes by “Davy”, not “David”. Davy was the only Jumper in the book, however, Griffin’s character changes this. In the movie, David knew Millie from school. In the book, they met after he ran away to New York City. In the book, David and Millie do not travel to Rome. The book spends a lot of time with Davy, trying to find his mother, and being tracked and investigated by the N.S.A., which has been replaced with the Paladin story arc.

In the original novel, Roland Cox’s first name was Brian. It was most likely changed to avoid confusion with actor Brian Cox. The character’s name was changed from Brian to Roland to reflect the stories of ancient France. The Paladins, led by Roland, served Charlemagne, similar to the stories of England’s King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Since the Paladins were not in the novel, on which the movie was based, and were added to the screenplay, the name Roland is more appropriate.