![]() After eight hours of interrogation, David’s mother Mary ( Lane) suddenly appears and leaves him keys to escape his handcuffs before the Paladins arrive to kill him. He quickly returns to Rome where he’s arrested for trespassing and taken into custody. David accidentally chases Griffin through his “jump scar” the event horizon created where the jumper creates the wormhole they pass through, and he ends up at Griffins lair in the middle of a desert. Griffin ( Bell) arrives after following David since they ran into each other in London, he kills the Paladins, quickly explains who and what they are to David and then leaves. David trespasses at the Colosseum when they are turned away from the gates by the guards, and while Millie is still outside the gate he is attacked by a team of Paladins. Meanwhile David charms Millie into joining him on a spontaneous vacation to Rome. David and Mark fight and David jumps him into one of the bank vaults he robbed years earlier. There, he reconnects with his high school crush Millie ( Bilson) where she tends bar and also runs into his former high school bully Mark ( Dunn). Roland attacks David with specialized weapons meant to disrupt a Jumper’s abilities to teleport away, but David manages to escape back to his home in Ann Arbor. One day he’s confronted by Roland ( Jackson), a leader of the Paladins who hunt and kill Jumpers, believing their gifts make them abominations. Eight years later David ( Christiansen) lives a life of leisure in a luxury penthouse apartment, spending his days jumping around the world to various exotic sites including surfing in Tahiti, lunching on top of the Sphinx’s head, and picking up a woman in a London pub. He uses the ability to escape the abusive household of his father and moves to New York where he robs banks by teleporting into their vaults after hours. When David Rice ( Thieriot) was 15-years-old in high school he discovers his ability to teleport, or “jump”, after he falls through thin ice on the Huron River. Filmed in 20 cities and 14 countries from 2007 to 2008 and released on February 14, 2008, the film grossed $225 million worldwide and received generally negative reviews from critics, mostly because of the many changes to Gould's novel, rushed plot, and anticlimactic ending. The script went through a rewrite prior to filming, and the roles for the main characters were changed during production. Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson, Max Thieriot, AnnaSophia Robb, Diane Lane, Michael Rooker, and Samuel L. Directed by Doug Liman, the film stars Hayden Christensen as a young man capable of teleporting, as he is chased by a secret society intent on killing him. Jumper is a 2008 American science fiction action film loosely based on Steven Gould's 1992 novel of the same name.
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