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Jumper is a 2008 science fiction film based on the 1992 science fiction novel Jumper by Steven Gould. The film is directed by Doug Liman and stars Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson, Max Thieriot, AnnaSophia Robb with Diane Lane and Samuel L. Jackson. Jumper was released on February 14, 2008.
Plot
As a teenager, David Rice (Hayden Christensen) lives with his father William (Michael Rooker). Due to her status as a Paladin, David's mother Mary (Diane Lane) left him because she knew he was a Jumper.
When David falls through the ice covering on a river, he discovers that he is a Jumper. Using this ability he leaves his childhood home behind. He decides to set himself up in New York City, using money he has stolen from the local bank. Over the course of the next eight years, David (now played by Hayden Christensen) lives life to excess, traveling all across the world and living a consequence-free life.
This all changes when he meets a Paladin, Roland Cox (Samuel L. Jackson). Roland had finally located David after years of tracking him. Roland was a detective hired to investigate the mysterious bank robberies David had accomplished. Roland uses a variety of advanced technologies to inhibit David’s ability to Jump while trying to kill him, but David manages to escape. After David tracks down Millie (Rachel Bilson), he encounters Mark (Teddy Dunn),who attended David and Millie's school. The two get into a fight after Mark insults Millie. During the fight, David jumps with Mark into a bank vault, and leaves Mark inside. After this, David Jumps back to Millie, and uses his considerable wealth to fly her to Rome for a holiday.
While the two are exploring the Roman Colosseum, David meets a young Jumper named Griffin (Jamie Bell). After being attacked by Paladins, they jump to his hideout. Once there, David learns about a centuries-old war between Jumpers and Paladins, and about how Griffin is trying to track down and kill as many of the Paladins as he can. After interrogating Mark in jail, Roland sets out to find David.
Fearing for Millie’s safety, David returns to Rome to see her safely on a homebound plane, but is arrested by the police for trespassing. While in custody he is visited by his mother, Mary, and warned that the Paladins are on their way. After receiving a warning to run, David puts Millie on a plane to Detroit, and then Jumps to his father’s house to check on him. Unfortunately, William is dead, killed by Roland for refusing to sell out his son.
While working with Griffin, David jumps to Millie's home in order to take her to safety. After David arrives at Griffin's hideout, Griffin panics, telling David that the Paladins have technology that allows them to travel through the scars left after a jump. Roland arrives minutes later with a team of Paladins and attacks the group. Griffin kills the team with a flamethrower and fights against Roland one-on-one; Roland eventually retreats back through the jump scar into Millie's home, taking Millie with him.
Griffin prepares a bomb to use against Roland, but David won’t let him as this would kill Millie as well. David then steals the detonator and the two Jump across the world, through each other’s Jump Scars; until David manages to trap Griffin in a collapsed electrical tower (preventing him from jumping). He then Jumps to Millie’s apartment, only to be caught by Roland and the Paladins. With great effort David manages to Jump a large portion of Millie’s apartment into a lake, shorting out the Paladins’ equipment. From there, he jumps a portion of the apartment, Millie, Roland, and himself into a library. David then jumps Roland into a cave in the Grand Canyon. Sparing Roland's life, David states that not all Jumpers end up being evil.
Some time later, David pays a visit to his mother, Mary, in the process learning that he has a sister. When he confronts her about her being a Paladin, she tells him that she loves him and therefore will give him a head start. The film ends with David and Millie jumping away to an unknown, but known to be a warmer, location.
1992年にスティーヴン・グールドが発表したSF小説『ジャンパー』が原作のSF映画である。『ボーン・アイデンティティー』や『Mr.&Mrs. スミス』を手掛けたダグ・リーマンが監督を務め、ヘイデン・クリステンセンやジェイミー・ベル、サミュエル・L・ジャクソン、レイチェル・ビルソン、アナソフィア・ロブらが出演している。アメリカをはじめ、香港、アルゼンチンは2008年2月14日公開、日本では同年3月7日公開が予定されている。
ニューヨークやエジプト、ローマなどに加え、東京都でも撮影が行われた。2007年1月に行われた東京ロケでは、渋谷やレインボーブリッジなど都内の数か所でクリステンセンやベルが撮影に臨んだ。
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