It’s been over 2 years since Jumper it screens and while there was talk about a sequel initially, nothing has happened. For a movie that cost $85 million to make a worldwide box office of $220 million is a decent amount, but it obviously isn’t enough for 20th Century Fox to make a sequel a priority.

At the premiere of Takers earlier this week Hayden Christensen was asked if there was anything to report, and the actor revealed talks are currently taking place.

From MTV:

“We’re talking about it right now actually,” he said. Where could the story go? “Hopefully somewhere a little darker. I think there’s a lot you can do with it. It was sort of set up in a way it’s gonna be mother hunting son and possibly even maybe sister hunting brother. We’re talking about it, trying to figure it out.”

Back in 2007 when Hayden Christensen landed the lead in Jumper he was still riding high from the success of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, but he hasn’t been in a big movie since which may be why 20th Century Fox are taking their time green-lighting a sequel. Personally I don’t think we will see one, and it will probably depend on how much director Doug Liman lobby’s the studio for one.

Would you be interested in seeing a Jumper 2?

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While on the promoting rounds for Jumper on DVD and Blue Ray Disc Hayden Christensen spoke to the Toronto Sun about whether he’d be up for a sequel.

“We’re talking about it,” the 27-year-old Canadian actor said. “I know that they’re having those conversations, I hear about them.” So would he sign on again? “Oh yeah, and I think I probably will.”

Liman originally planned a movie trilogy based on Steven Gould’s novel. Liman spun out a liberal re-imagining of Gould’s more personal story about child abuse, which had jumping as a metaphor for escape.

“It was set up to become that — a trilogy — if it did well,” Christensen added. “And I think they’re happy with how it did so they want to make another one. But I don’t think they’re rushing to get into production.”

Compared to Iron Man’s $537 million+ worldwide, Jumper only made $221.4 million, which is probably a reason why they are not rushing to get it out. However, it’s budget was $85 million so it did make a nice sum for FOX.

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Jumper has just made $38.3 million in 5 days, which is rather good. Well done to them! I bet they are glad they re-cast the unknowns for Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson, as their dashing good looks are no doubt responsible for most of the $$$, apart from the cool concept of the movie of course. Some people are saying that the Jumper could have been better, however some enjoyed it. It’s a mixed bag. However, if it continues to make good money there will no doubt be more films, as originally intended. Director Doug Liman spoke to Collider about the future of the teleporters. What he says may contain spoilers so beware!

“I actually have a ton of ideas for the sequel because this is whole new arena for me and so my mind was in overdrive the whole time and most of the ideas I came up with we either could tease or just save it for a sequel and so it’s…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.”

“…Rachel Bilson’s character learns how to teleport in the 2^nd book…In this case [the teleportation powers] are taught and it’s, you know, one of the things that may sort of…things we toyed with on this movie is do we actually need to do the obligatory rule scene, where you lay out everything the power can and can’t do. We ultimately decided to say we’re changing so many other sort of aspects of this genre like let’s not do the rule scene because the rules don’t ultimately…the limitations of this power aren’t ultimately…don’t factor into the finale…”

“Well, you know 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. So you know that’s not quantum teleportation which is featured in the film, so I’m very specific to show those scars and to show that you’re leaving a worm hole and in fact that’s what Rachel Bilson gets pulled through in the end, so it’s….I’ve left myself open…I’ve left the door open to time travel because of the specific kind of teleportation that I chose to portray in this film.”

Liman has a couple projects coming up so we may not be seeing Jumper 2 for a while.

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