Credits
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Production companies
Regency Enterprises
New Regency Productions
Hypnotic
Dune Entertainment
Directed by
Doug Liman
Screenplay by David S. Goyer Jim Uhls Simon Kinberg
Story by
Steven Gould
Based on Jumper by Steven Gould
Produced by
Arnon Milchan
Lucas Foster
Simon Kinberg
Jay Sanders
Starring
Hayden Christensen
Jamie Bell
Rachel Bilson
Michael Rooker
AnnaSophia Robb
Max Thieriot
Diane Lane
Samuel L. Jackson
Cinematography
Barry Peterson
Edited by
Saar Klein
Don Zimmerman
Music by
John Powell
Synopsis
David Rice lives lavishly on stolen money acquired from using his superability to "jump," particularly into and out of bank vaults. 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. Roland Cox, current leader of the Paladins, learns of David's identity from Mark, who bullied David in high school, after a bar fight results in David jumping them into a bank vault. David and his high school crush Millie go to Rome, keeping his ability a secret. When they visit the Colosseum, David meets Griffin, another Jumper before the two are confronted by two Paladins whom Griffin casually kills. 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. Millie, upset and afraid when David tries to skirt around the issue, demands to know the truth. David declines and fearing for her safety, puts her on a plane home. David runs into Griffin again, and follows him to his hideout in an Egyptian tomb, by jumping through the "jump scar" left behind after a jump. Griffin reveals that he has been trailing and killing Paladins for years and plans to kill Cox to avenge his parents. Griffin tells David that the Paladins will target his loved ones to draw him out. David teleports home and finds his father lying bleeding. He jumps his father to a hospital and returns to Griffin to ask for help. Realizing Cox is personally hunting David, Griffin agrees. Once free of the cables, David teleports Millie to safety and dumps Cox in a cave in Horseshoe Bend. He strands Cox there as a sign of mercy, telling him "I could have dropped you with the sharks." David visits his long-lost mother Mary and discovers his younger half-sister Sophie. Mary tells David that when he was five, he made his very first jump. She is a Paladin and had to either kill David or leave. She chose the latter because she loves him. After leaving her house, David meets up with Millie, and he jumps himself and her to a much warmer location.