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Liman said about using the novel for developing the script: 'This is 100% Steven Gould's story, it's just reinvented as a movie.' In an interview, Gould revealed that he approved of the deviations from the novel. However, Liman desired another rewrite and Simon Kinberg assisted in completing the script. Screenwriter Jim Uhls was hired to rewrite an adapted screenplay by David S. In November 2005, New Regency Productions hired director Doug Liman to helm the film adaptation of the science fiction novel Jumper by Steven Gould.

Kristen Stewart as Sophie, David's younger half-sister.

Michael Rooker as William Rice, David's abusive father.

Teddy Dunn as Mark Kobold, David's childhood bully.

Diane Lane as Mary Rice, David's long-lost mother.

Jamie Bell as Griffin O'Connor, a renegade Jumper.

Jackson as Roland Cox, the current leader of the Paladins group.

Rachel Bilson as Millie Harris, David's love interest.

He also is a latent telekinetic, an additional hereditary ability that activates whenever he is stressed and cannot jump.

Hayden Christensen as David Rice, a young man who discovers the genetic spatial ability to ' jump' over short and long distances enshrouded by thin, black smoke.

Rachel Bilson and Hayden Christensen filming in Rome in November 2006 After leaving her house, David meets up with Millie, and he jumps himself and her to a much warmer location. She chose the latter because she loves him. She is a Paladin and had to either kill David or leave.

Mary tells David that when he was five, he made his very first jump. He strands Cox there as a sign of mercy, telling him 'I could have dropped you with the sharks'.ĭavid visits his long-lost mother Mary and discovers his younger half-sister Sophie.

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Once free of the cables, David teleports Millie to safety and dumps Cox in a cave in Horseshoe Bend. Mustering his strength, David teleports the apartment and everyone inside to a river, drowning all the Paladins present, except Cox. The cables 'link' him to the apartment, making him unable to jump away alone. Ignoring Griffin's warning, David jumps to Millie's apartment and is quickly trapped by Cox's cables. They fight and David traps Griffin with power lines in Chechnya. Obsessed with killing Cox, Griffin plans to bomb the apartment, but David objects, wanting to save Millie. He sets up a trap in Millie's apartment, expecting David to come back for her. Cox is chased back through the jump scar, but he manages to snatch Millie with him. David sees his mother's photo on the wall and realizes she is also a Paladin. Using a machine that keeps David's ' jump scar' open, the Paladins, including Cox, invade the hideout. Seeing Cox arriving, David decides to reveal the truth to her. David breaks into Millie's apartment, angering her. Griffin returns to his hideout to get weapons. They go to pick Millie up at the airport, but she is no longer there. Realizing Cox is personally hunting David, Griffin agrees. He jumps his father to a hospital and returns to Griffin to ask for help. David teleports home and finds his father lying bleeding. Griffin tells David that the Paladins will target his loved ones to draw him out. Griffin reveals that he has been trailing and killing Paladins for years and plans to kill Cox to avenge his parents. David declines and fearing for her safety, puts her on a plane home.ĭavid runs into Griffin again, and follows him to his hideout in a cave. Millie, upset and afraid when David tries to skirt around the issue, demands to know the truth. David is detained by Italian police and questioned about the deaths, but escapes with the help of David's mother, Mary, who left him when he was five. When they visit the Colosseum, David meets Griffin, another Jumper before the two are confronted by two Paladins who Griffin casually kills. David and his high school crush Millie go to Rome, keeping his ability a secret. Roland Cox, current leader of the Paladins, learns of David's identity from Mark, who bullied David in high school. He is being hunted by the Paladins, a secret society of religious fanatics who are sworn to trace and kill 'Jumpers' for their alleged omnipresence which they find blasphemous. David Rice lives lavishly on stolen money acquired from using his superability to ' jump' into and out of bank vaults.