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Looking just as head scratching as “Moon”, Duncan Jones’ new film, "Source Code" looks set to be explosive. On first impression it looks like a cross between “Twelve Monkeys” and “The Matrix”, the film sees the world with two realities, in which Jake Gyllenhaal travels between.

“Source Code” is about a computer software programme which gives allows a person the ability to take on another person’s identity in the last seconds of his life. An American experimental organisation uses this software to investigate a train bombing and try to prevent another terrorist attack, cue Jake Gyllenhaal being blown up every eight minutes, enough times to make him try to alter the past, in order to save fellow passenger Michelle Monagham.

Jones' second project looks to have a bigger budget than "Moon" and the cast is just as big, but what does seem interesting is the writer Ben Ripley, relatively unknown, it shall be interesting to see how that comes about.

Sounds a little confusing, Jones clearly has a strong interest in the psychology of the mind, regarding his characters and audiences, instead of clones commanding a moon base, it’s a person taking on another mans identity to prevent future terrorist attacks. Similarities to "Moon" is claustrophic location were the film is set.

Despite being English born, and predominantly being raised in England, Jones has opted for another American film. However a terrorist attack on a train sounds remarkably similar to the London bombings, so his British roots are perhaps not entirely lost. Besides the chances of an experimental government organisation such as the “Source Code”, happening in America is far more likely than anywhere else.

“Source Code” is out March 11.

"I think people want to stick me in a small place, a train is bigger a moon base though. Next it might be a yatch, eventually it will be the Death Star…” Jones