Moon director Duncan Jones' new film with Jake Gyllenhaal

Duncan Jones, the director of the sci fi indie 'Moon' is back, and this time he has roped in Jake Gyllenhaal to star in his new film 'Source Code'.

'Source Code' is supposedly one of the hottest scripts in Hollywood, the script has had some revisions done by Billy Ray but was originally written by Ben Ripley. The official plotline goes like this: 'In the first scene, a man named Colter - Gyllenhaal’s character - wakes up on a train headed through the New Jersey countryside. He has no idea how he got there and nobody he speaks to can offer him any clues, though he is told that, to his surprise, he has taken this train every day for the last three months.

After some interaction with the various characters in his train car, many of whom become more important as the story unfolds (particularly Christina… but I won’t say why, and mention her in part to just raise the question of who the female lead might be), Colter heads to the bathroom where, quite surprisingly, he finds a bomb. Unfortunately, just after Colter finds it, a cell-phone detonator is triggered and…

…he’s killed. In fact, the entire train explodes. There’s a big ball of fire and, for just eight frames of film, some other cryptic goings on that only make sense later. We’re now seven or eight minutes in and about to be shocked.

…Colter awakens again, this time in an Isolation Unit where he’s being debriefed by a man named Goodwin, perhaps symbolically so. It seems that Captain Colter Stevens has just been living through a virtual simulation of the incident on the train in order to discover who it was that bombed it.

The cellphone maguffin is a smart one because everybody on the train will have one but finding the right one will also identify who the terrorist is. Simple, but sweet.

As the story goes on, there are only two types of scene - those that show Colter’s next journey into the same few simulated minutes on the train, and those that take place in the rather austere Isolation Unit in which he’s expected to report his findings and some unexpected twists come into play. Pretty soon there’s a suggestion that there’s more to the simulation than meets the eye and Colter may even be able, somehow, change history and prevent the train from exploding. It’s not unike a video game in which he’s stuck on the same level, dying over and over, repeated and repeated with a new approach to playing every time.'

Source Code will film in 2010 and will release in early 2011.