I couldn’t find a small clip of GOB from ‘Arrested Development’ saying his trademark ‘Come on!’, so here’s a semi-short clip of him saying the phrase. There’s some story mixed in there as well. Bah.
Anyway. I was looking at the Wikipedia entry for the ‘Jumper’ movie and what I saw made me want to vomit in rage. In rage.
A genetic anomaly allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between ‘Jumpers’ and those who have sworn to kill them.
WTF is that?! Where the hell are they getting this crap? The books have nothing about any genetic anomalies, any centuries-old wars or jumper-hunters! The concept of a genetic anomaly is briefly touched on in the first book, when Davy questions his abilities, but that’s as far as it goes. And there certainly isn’t anything to suggest that a war has been going on between the jumpers and the jumper-hunters!
This movie has been changed so many times since I first heard of it, I fear that it will come out to be a steaming pile of crap that has nothing to do with the novels. First, the part of Davy was set to be played by Tom Sturridge, a young English actor, before being given to the plastic Hayden Christensen. Hayden stunk up the ‘Star Wars’ prequels and I can’t imagine him pulling off the role of Davy too well, either. Millie was recast from Teresa Palmer, another relative unknown like Sturridge, to Rachel Bilson, who annoyed the hell out of me in her role as Summer in ‘The OC’. On a curious note, Sturridge and Palmer were born in 1986, while Christensen and Bilson were born in 1981. I wish that the studio cast a younger actor for Davy, as in the first novel he’s just turning 18. Millie should have been a few years older, but there you have it. Apparently, Millie and Davy have known each other since childhood, departing from the book’s fateful meeting in New York City. Finally, Samuel L. Jackson started out as playing Brian Cox, the NSA agent trying to catch Davy, but was then changed to some asshole named Roland, the head jumper-hunter. Argh!
Obviously I will go to see the movie when it opens in February. I may even take the day off and see the very first showing of it. But, at this point, I have very little hope for a great film. Knowing that they’re planning a trilogy makes me feel sick inside.