Moon director Jones direct thriller Source Code

Duncan Jones was the recipient of critical plaudits aplenty earlier this year, courtesy of his existential science fiction ponderer Moon. And, following that triumph, the director (and son of David Bowie) has now signed on for his next project, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that Jones will helm sky-high concept thriller Source Code.

Jones had looked set to follow Moon with the self-developed, future-Berlin-set Mute, but that Blade Runner-influenced piece has since stalled over budgetary issues, leaving him free to tackle Source Code. The script has been penned by screenwriter Ben Ripley (previously responsible for Species III and - yes! - Species: The Awakening), with a polish applied by Billy Ray, who worked on the big screen version of State of Play. Slash Film has apparently seen a copy of the Ripley draft, and report that the story centres on a man named Colter who wakes up on a New Jersey train, having no clue as to how he got there. The train is promptly blown to smithereens by a bomb in the bathroom, and Colter and his fellow travellers are all killed. However, the confused commuter awakens again, this time in a special Isolation Unit. And it is from there that Captain Colter Stevens repeatedly revisits the scene of the atrocity, to try and pull together the clues that will expose who is responsible.

No stranger to a spot of time-hopping lunacy (Donnie Darko), Jake Gyllenhaal is in talks to tackle the role of Colter.

The Hollywood Reporter had it first.