[Updated] Source Code premieres! Jake, Vera, Michelle and Duncan shine at SXSW - a first report

Updated to add this great video of the Q&A!



Thanks to Mermon for the heads up.

What a night! Source Code premiered in Austin, Texas, and Jake Gyllenhaal was back on the red carpet, along with Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Duncan Jones and writer Ben Ripley. There's a huge amount to catch up with and so this post is a preliminary report. There will be more to come. But now it's time to dive in to a night of Source Code goodies.


I particularly liked this first interview with Jake, in which he talks about how fans can be inspired by a movie and can develop its ideas further. This took me right back to 2006.



You can read Jake's words here. “What I think is cool about Source Code Mission is that the idea of the source code in the movie is that it’s a computer game, and you know, off that computer game, different tangents are created,” Gyllenhaal told WebProNews. “And you affect the world as a result of that game. And the computer game that’s actually in reality – this reality – that’s on the Internet – is that same sort of idea, and is a tangent off the movie – that you can actually create other realities, and based on where you are, and the potential for the game is…just beginning now, but I think the user will create whatever it’s supposed to be.”


“To me, normally, you have a lot of games with movies [as] a way of marketing movies, and this feels like a way of creatively telling another story based on the story that was already told,” he added. “I just have all of these crazy, amazing ideas based on it, because what if we can get people on the Internet involved in the story after they’ve seen – or even before they’ve seen the movie, but particularly after they’ve seen the movie, there are so many possibilities…the possibilities are endless…”


I've purposefully avoided reviews of the film but there are lots of photos around of the Q&A that followed the screening. KVUE has a couple of galleries - of the whole gang, of Just Jake. They also have a video from the red carpet.



Here Jake, Michelle and Vera talk about being in Austin: '“This is not my first time in Austin. I love this city,” said actor Jake Gyllenhaal... “I already had a bike ride this morning. Would like to hit up some of the food trucks around town. Whatever I can run into. That's what I love about Austin,” Gyllenhaal said. “This is my first time in Austin...really happy to be here,” said Monaghan. “I'm going to go for a run around the lake tomorrow. I'm really excited about that actually.” Faniga said, “I'm excited to do some exploring, eat some fabulous food, listen to some great music.”'

'“We're opening the film festival with a movie I'm really excited about," Monaghan said. "And some guy named Jake Gyllenhaal. He's all right.”'


It was exciting last night following events on Twitter - there were some thrilled tweeters about, capturing photos of Jake and Michelle during their Unscripted interview for Moviefone. Here are some links to just a few: tweet 1, tweet 2, tweet 3, tweet 4, the theatre, and this great picture from a meet and greet with Jake. One can get slightly over enthusiastic though... ahem.


Many, many thanks to IHJ, who has done a magnificent job and so quickly! There are many more pictures there. I must say that Vera Farmiga looks absolutely sensational and I love Duncan's t-shirt! Duncan showed Moon at SXSW back in 2009 and it was clear that he was glad to be back at this his favourite festival.

The panel takes place today and so there will be details of that later as well as, no doubt, much, much more from last night as the hours go by. So stay tuned.


And finally...

Going off in a completely different tangent, we have our first taster of Jake on Shalom Sesame...