Sci-fi action flick Source Code opens April 1st and Summit just made available the first five minutes for you to watch online.  As a general rule, there aren’t too many decent mainstream, wide-release Hollywood sci-fi movies anymore, but this one was directed by Duncan Jones, previously of the acclaimed Moon, who’s not only seen as an up and comer by sci fi nerds, but also holds the distinction of being possibly the only person in entertainment who changed his stage name to something less fancy.  Thanks to his dad being David Bowie, he was born “Zowie Bowie,” which he changed to Duncan Jones when he was 18.  I think a good way to tell you’ve failed at baby naming is if your kid decides he wants to be called “Duncan” while he’s still a teenager.

Anyway, the plot of Source Code is that the government has developed the technology to allow Jake Gyllenhaal to relive the last eight minutes of another guy’s life before he was awesomely exploded in a terrorist train bombing.  They want Jake to find the terrorist and prevent the next bombing, but of course all he wants to do is bang the dead guy’s dead girlfriend.  But is eight minutes enough time to convince a girl to bang you on a train when she doesn’t even know you’re a famous movie star?  Find out this April.

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Here’s the trailer for Source Code, starring Jake Yillinhoolahey and Michelle Monaghan, directed by Duncan Jones, previously of Moon (aka David Bowie’s son, Zowie — seriously).  The one-sentence concept?  In a Quantum Leap-esque conceit, soldier Jake Gyllenhaal can trade places with any other person and relive the last eight minutes of their life.  To catch a terrorist, he trades places with a guy who died in a train explosion. He has eight minutes to save the world, but Jake being Jake, he bangs the guy’s girlfriend first.

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"That's right, bro, it's a lens. Sick, right?"

WB and Legendary pictures have to get their Superman movie made by 2012, because in 2013, some of their rights revert back to the heirs of creator Jerry Siegel (and god forbid those worthless catamites get nickel of this).  Back in February, WB hired Chris Nolan to “mentor” the process.  A few weeks after that, we heard David S. Goyer (co-wrote Batman Begins, story credit on Dark Knight) was writing the script.   Now, according to Deadline, Chris Nolan and producer Emma Thomas have a shortlist of possible directors.  BOOM!  HERE THE F*CK THEY ARE!  (That’s just how I roll, homey).

• Tony Scott (recently of Unstoppable — it’s like a missile the size of the Chrysler building!)
• Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Let Me In)
• Jonathan Liebesman (Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Clash of the Titans 2)
• Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code)
• Zack Snyder (Watchmen, 300, Sucker Punch)

Nolan is reportedly meeting with candidates and will submit his choice to the studio in a few weeks.  Tony Scott is out of the question, because nowadays he only does movies about trains (though Superman is faster than a speeding train — discuss).  Matt Reeves… haven’t seen Let Me In yet, but… meh.  Jonathan Liebesman… double meh.  I still haven’t seen Duncan Jones’ Moon (no homo), but everyone says it’s amazing.  I believe them, but it’s always hard to predict what’ll happen when a director goes from smaller projects to blockbusters, and whether he’ll let the studio walk all over him or not.  I’m all for Zack Snyder.  He made the supposedly un-adaptable Watchmen and almost pulled it off.  Imagine the fun he could have with Superman.  But something tells me Superman doesn’t have enough zombies or owls or swordfights or hot chicks in spandex for Zack Snyder’s tastes.  Come to think of it, Superman is a little boring.  He’s like Steve Young with superpowers.

Moon, directed by a guy whose name I sh*t you not is “Duncan Zowie Heywood Jones” and starring Sam Rockwell, is the ever elusive sci-fi indie film, about a three-year, one-man mission to the moon to mine Helium-3, which has become Earth’s primary source of energy.  Naturally that one man is Sam Rockwell, looking like a crazy homeless person again.  His only company is a computer who’s basically like HAL, but with smiley face emoticons.  Strangely, the emoticons actually make it seem more empathetic.  Something to remember next time you have to dump someone via text message.  “It’s not working out :-(   It’s not you, it’s me.  Looks like I have some issues to work through :-S I’ll really miss 3===> (|) ”

[trailer courtesy of IGN, opens June 12]