I thought that would be interesting, in the same way The Bourne Identity took what was in the spy genre, and just threw it out the window. They have a superpower, but they use the power to save themselves, at the end of the movie, and not to save the damsel in distress. There’s the way everybody does it, and my instant reaction is, “I’m gonna do it differently.” And so, when I was making Jumper, I said that my version of a superhero film would be that the person doesn’t become a superhero. LIMAN: Honestly, when I was making the film. When did you realize that Jumper wasn’t what you had hoped it would be? That’s way more fun to explore, on a character level, than the you can go anywhere, at any time, concept of Jumper. And for somebody who doesn’t want to be at home, and who wants to be anywhere but in Reston New York, it’s a curse that she keeps getting sent back there. And so, in Impulse, not to give too much away, but she only has the ability to come back home, for quite a bit of time. With the specific power of teleportation, I missed, in Jumper, what would make it so compelling, in a movie or a TV series, which is the ways in which it could be a curse. I wasn’t interested in the aliens in Edge of Tomorrow: Live Die Repeat, I was interested in Tom Cruise’s character, having to go through that. At the end of the day, I like big, high concepts, but I like them because I like following characters going through them. Smith and having spouses who are pulling machine guns on each other, or giving a character the ability to teleport, as a way to explore a character. I’m very interested in superpowers and in putting characters in outrageous situations, of any form, whether it’s Mr. The themes that attracted me to Impulse are themes that attracted me to Jumper, and even some of my other films. Liman also talked about hoping to find out the status of the Edge of Tomorrow sequel soon and where they’re at with the script, as well as why Justice League Dark didn’t work out.ĭOUG LIMAN: I really wanted a clean start. While at WonderCon to promote the series, debuting this summer, pilot director Doug Liman stopped by the Collider interview suite to chat about why he wanted to jump back into the world of Jumper, but in a new and different way, why he feels Jumper didn’t work, the appeal of putting characters in outrageous situations, being able to go much further and deeper on television, rewriting the lead character once they cast Maddie Hasson, and what makes Henry such a strong character. In the action thriller, she soon discovers she has the extraordinary ability to teleport, confirming that she really is different from everybody else, but that comes with its own set of problems, as people want to control her. From executive producer Doug Liman and Gene Klein and showrunner Lauren LeFranc, the upcoming YouTube Red original series Impulse (set in the world of Jumper) features a rebellious 16-year-old girl named Henry ( Maddie Hasson), who has always felt different and longed to escape her small town.
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