Jumper 2: Reflex in Development
The Doug Liman-directed sci-fi/action flick Jumper is hitting DVD this week, and despite the lacklustre reviews that it received, this probably won’t be the last we see of Hayden Christensen and his teleportation abilities. In a recent interview with The Winnipeg Sun, Christensen confirmed that they are currently having discussions about the second installment.
“It was set up to become that — a trilogy — if it did well… And I think they’re happy with how it did so they want to make another one. But I don’t think they’re rushing to get into production.”
If you’ve seen Jumper, you know that it ends on a cliffhanger of sorts, and it’s pretty obvious that they intended to continue the story. Steven Gould wrote a sequel to the original book called Reflex, which we can probably assume would be the basis for the second movie as well. Although I wasn’t particularly impressed with Jumper, I maintain that the actual concept behind the movie is very cool, and I’d be interested in seeing Doug Liman have another shot to get things right.
Interesting to note: the movie was originally supposed to have a younger cast (the books are actually written for teens) but at the last minute they decided to make it older and broaden the target market. I wonder if it would have been better or worse with its original cast of Tom Sturridge and Teresa Palmer?
Comments (15)
I’m in there like swimwear. I loved Jumper when I saw it in theaters and can’t wait to watch it again on DVD. My initial enjoyment of the film could have been somewhat based on low expectations, but I think it was just mainly the great teleportation concepts that I hadn’t thought about or seen explored before. I say bring on the sequel.
Posted by Rian on June 9th, 2008I didnt hate it as much as I expected to. I’ll rent it and see if it has any rewatchabilty.
Posted by Wes on June 9th, 2008Gotta love sequels to absolutely mediocre films.
Posted by Jon Rocks on June 10th, 2008GREAT MOVIE, I can’t wait for the sequel! If you didn’t like the movie your attention span is pitiful or you are one of these idiots that think it’s cool to be a negative contrarian.
Posted by CLAY CASH on August 28th, 2008I thought the movie was great! I love the concept. I really would like to see a second installment that digs deeper into the past of both the jumpers and the palicans(I think)
Posted by Greg Beaty on January 19th, 2009It was a long time a hadn’t seen such a great movie !
Posted by Chichou Bob on February 3rd, 2009I’m sooo happy they’ll make it a trilogy.
Doug Liman has to hurry up, I want more !!
The first movie wasn’t THE best, and the book was marginally better, but the second book and the third are just absolutely fantastic!!
They’re PALADINS by the way…
Reflex and Griffin’s story are definitely both worth a read.
Posted by TrilogyFanBoi on March 26th, 2009i loved this movie.. a bit cheesy but i love the idea of ‘jumping’ everywhere and i love the idea of them getting hunted down and all that. could have explained a bit more but it was great i hope they make a new one! and that dude is HOT
Posted by ashley on September 5th, 2009*~ashley~*
i loved that movie and reflex is so good. i love you victoria riccert
Posted by meeeee on October 1st, 2009I liked the book, but I think they butchered the movie with all the Paladins, the other teleport, and the whole war between Jumpers and Paladins. They should have kept it simple, and kept it as Davy’s story as a normal guy who can teleport fighting terrorists. Instead it was about the level of a comic book.
Posted by Thomas Hooker on March 10th, 2010The movie was actually pretty decent. Nothing like the book (just the teleportation concept and the names of some characters), not anywhere near as good as the books, but still really decent for Hollywood. Definitely better than 90% of the movies they put out on its own, with the awesome concept (the jumping) boosting it to one of the best scifi movies of the past few years imo.
As usual, though, the critics are tards. i’d love to see a sequel; even better would be an actual Jumper movie, that resembled the books closer than just having teleportation. Changing the age is fine, but the original story would be much better, with jumping being teachable and the enemy being more realistic shadowy political manipulators like the type who run the real world, rather than genetic jumpers fighting crusaders.
Posted by Bob on June 16th, 2011Checking other places, they say that Jumper 2 will be coming out sometime in 2013. Damn. If that is so and everything said about the end of the world as we know it happening on 12/12/12, then we are all going to miss the sequel.
Posted by James on July 18th, 2011bring on the sequel the movie was AWESOME
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