Jumper wins at the box office, sequel likely to happen now

The new supernatural, superhero movie, Jumper, was pretty much a bust in my eyes, but with it having such an open-ended finish, a sequel had already been planned and a box office victory was all the stood in its way.

Well, it appears the sequel could get made since the movie “jumped” all over the competition this past weekend.

Opening on Thursday, and including the President’s Day holiday weekend, Jumper pulled in just over $38 million in the United States, with a reported $28 million internationally in 30 countries.

That’s a $66 million bonanza for Doug Liman, who has inexplicably struck gold again after hits with the Bourne films and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I suspect the poor reviews may hurt it next week, but who knows…some people just love these kinds of movies and don’t care about the lack of good storytelling, so it could continue to make money.

Now that a sequel is likely in the works, Liman has already told Collider some inside secrets on what it could be about and what other things “jumping” involves:

“this power can be used to leave this planet, this power can be used ultimately to go back in time, this power can be used if you go and work for the government you’d be the ultimate Jason Bourne.”

“The kind of jumping that we’re showing in the movie which is a kind of worm hole jump which is why those scars are left behind, if you can travel through space through a worm hole from a scientific Einstein point of view, you could also travel through time…I’ve left the door open to time travel because of the specific kind of teleportation that I chose to portray in this film”

Well, as I said before, the whole idea behind the film rocked and this additional stuff could really be cool. My only hope is that the sequel somehow improves on the original and is a good movie.

If you think about it though…teleporting, time travel…these guys have some major powers, no wonder the Paladin are jealous and want them dead.

Source: Dark Horizons