Articles tagged with: Jumper
Ah, Valentine's Day weekend. What could be more romantic than dragging your girlfriend to see a hokey sci-fi movie on the off-chance that you'll get to see Rachel Bilson in her bra.
You guessed it - Jumper is the top movie at the weekend box office.
Jumper, you'll remember, is the film where Hayden Christensen can jump through space in an instant. We're looking forward to when he learns to jump through time, because maybe we can convince him to undo the Star Wars prequels. And Factory Girl. And Awake. And maybe, if we're lucky, the moment he decided to be an actor instead of a Superdrug shelf-stacker.
You've probably seen trailers for Jumper - the new dimension-leaping movie starring Darth Vader and Billy Elliot - and you've probably decided not to go and see it because it looks hopeless.
But ask yourself this: would you have gone to see Jumper if the Hayden Christensen role was played by Eminem?
No. No you probably wouldn't. But that didn't stop Eminem from having discussions with director Doug Liman about starring as the lead in Jumper in the preproduction stages. Although it's impossible to tell what Jumper would have been like if it had Eminem in it, we're guessing that it probably would have been reset in Detroit and been about a plucky wannabe rapper instead of Darth Vader driving buses through a desert.
