But he's completely lost here, and Liman gives him little help in that regard. Has it held up? Christensen is always going to take the biggest hit for the then-panned George Lucas Star Wars prequels, but he's not incapable of a good performance: He's terrific in Billy Ray's Shattered Glass, for one. 1 the first weekend and was actually a huge hit in South Korea - but it didn't make enough to earn that sequel. The box office wasn't quite as horrible as the critics' reaction might have predicted - it was No. Audiences were confused, and critics howled. (But not in, like, a cool 'jumper' way.) It also doesn't help that Christensen and Max Theriot, the actor who plays the younger version of his character, look. The movie had been plagued by troubles on set, and you could tell: Liman's movies are usually tight and focused, but this one has a non-sensical plot and characters that seem to vanish and reappear at random. It also didn't help that Christensen was wearing some sort of trench coat on the poster, which made Jumper look less adventurous and visionary than it like some sort of low-budget, gas-station knockoff of The Matrix. One thing Liman hadn't accounted for was that by the time the movie actually came out, Hayden Christensen was less a 'movie star' after his time in the Star Wars universe and more 'a guy everyone was ready to start dumping on.' The knives were out for him, and his film, from the get-go. So we planned the story out over three movies and then we sliced it up in such a way as to leave room for the other two movies.' A producer said before release: 'The ideas got so large, that they really couldn't fit into, you know, one or two movies, they needed to evolve over at least three movies. How could this thing possibly miss? Look out for those sequels. Steven Gould's initial novel Jumper was published in 1992 and was an immediate hit, leading to a series of equally successful (you guessed it) sequels, including Reflex in 2004, which was to be part of the next movie series. Video of Jumper: Griffin' s Story Xbox 360 Clip - Gameplay VideoĪnd don't forget the books themselves.

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