Source Code and Forbidden Planet and Duncan Jones on Jake: he's a smart, funny cookie

You know you've made it when there's a carrier bag with your name on it - but this is no ordinary carrier bag. This is a Forbidden Planet Carrier Bag. And, believe me, my friends, that shop has no shortage of goodies with which to load up said Carrier Bag...


Thanks to Forbidden Planet afficionado and good friend Rob of X&HT, it has been brought to my attention that this legendary shop is having something of a Source Code push and it has put Jake Gyllenhaal in its window! Not only that, it's a Source Code poster without that yellow flash bursting out of Jake's chest - a win win. Many thanks to Rob for the photos.


Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth, Duncan Jones, director of film that appears on the forementioned Forbidden Planet carrier bag, has been talking to Wired about his latest foray into science fiction as well as the legacy of Moon. It's a very good interview - Duncan mentions that Ben Ripley wrote the script and he then got Jake interested in it and it was Jake who then went to Duncan.


'When Jake came to see me, we hadn’t made our money back on Moon, we hadn’t won any awards, I was still a young independent filmmaker scratching out a living trying to work out how I was going to get my next film made. When we met up I wanted to discuss a project of my own with him, and he said, “That sounds fascinating but I’ve got a project here that I’d like you to direct.” Source Code was an opportunity to show what I could do with a big-name star on a bigger budget. Jake was excited visually by Moon and by what Sam [Rockwell] was doing in it. He wanted me to do the same thing on Source Code.'


'Jake’s a smart cookie and he’s funny, which is one thing I immediately talked to him about. As written, the Source Code script is quite serious and dry. I wanted to inject a little humor and quirkiness into the film. As well, Jake’s got that Indiana Jones/Harrison Ford thing happening in Source Code, which I’m very excited about.'

From the sound of it, we may see Jake in a future Duncan Jones movie: 'I also think I made a good deal with Jake: When the time is right hopefully he’ll help me out on one of my films.'


Source Code premieres this Friday, tomorrow, in fact, and we can follow Duncan through this extraordinary month of publicity thanks to the smashing new blog by his lady, Rodene. I have also put a link to it on the front page of WDW.



Updated to add, thanks to MMM for the heads up, a link to a fantastic review of Source Code - 'the best film of 2011 so far'. It's not spoilery but it may be taken down so if you want to read it read it now.

Includes pictures from Rob and Sky.