Opening in theaters on October 28th is the new sci-fi thriller from Gattaca writer/director Andrew Niccol called In Time. The film stars an excellent cast of young actors including Justin Timberlake (The Social Network), Amamda Seyfried (Dear John), Cillian Murphy (Batman Begins), Olivia Wilde (Tron: Legacy), Matt Bomer (TV's White Collar), Alex Pettyfer (I Am Number Four), Johnny Galecki (TV's The Big Bang Theory), and Vincent Kartheiser (TV's Mad Men). 

At Comic-Con International in San Diego earlier this year, IAR's managing editor Jami Philbrick had a chance to speak with director Andrew Niccol, as well actors Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried about their new film In Time. The two actors and the director discuss the new film, it's intricate plot, fast paced chases, Seyfried's natural talent, Timberlake's reasons for making the movie, and its close relationship to Gattaca.   

Fourteen years ago, Andrew Niccol made a class-conscious science fiction allegory with Gattaca, which envisioned a future divided between those who've been genetically modified and those who haven't.  His next class-conscious sci-fi tale is In Time, and it'll be arriving theatrically in less than two weeks.  It's set in a near future where nobody ages past 25, but from that point on, they're living on borrowed time within a system that has replaced money with time.  The poor die young, the rich life forever. 

All this conceptual information is conveyed in one of two new clips from the film.  In the first, Justin Timberlake gambles with Vincent Kartheiser, who spouts a whole lot of on-the-nose information, and in the second, Timberlake kidnaps Amanda Seyfried, punches a bunch of nameless guards, and gets into a car chase.  Basically, the two clips form a comprehensive two-part argument to see the movie, first with the concept and second with the promise of action.

Hey, SPOILER alert.  Most superhero sequels would just introduce a new and improved costume for their central figure, but 2008's The Dark Knight impressively incorporated the need for a more functional Batman outfit into its plot, allowing for a nice bit of continuity between the regalia worn by Christian Bale's cowled ass-kicker in Batman Begins and its sequel (neither involved wearing hockey pads).  We've been hearing for months now that The Dark Knight Rises will loop back into the first film in Christopher Nolan's trilogy, and a new rumor suggests that the trilogy continuity will be upheld by the appearance a member of Batman's rogues gallery will show up in the final installment.  Again: potential spoilers be here.

The unknown and mysterious is, pretty much without exception, way scarier than the known and explicit.  This makes it somewhat odd that the trailers for so, so many thrillers and horror films rely on heaping helpings of exposition, would-be jump scares, and an excess of assaultive quick-cuts.  By comparison, the first teaser trailer for Red Lights is refreshingly simple and ominous.  It consists of a few title cards and one creeping shot crawling towards the back of Robert De Niro, then finishes with a clean, intriguing little surprise regarding his character. 

It's a simple trailer that creates an aura of mystery around De Niro as Simon Silver, a world-famous psychic who may be a fraud but also might just be the real deal, with his finger on some serious goings-on.  The film is written and directed by Rodrigo Cortes, the Spanish director who made an impressive debut last year with Buried, which took place almost exclusively in a simple box underground as Ryan Reynolds' character was, as the title suggests, buried alive.

Since San Diego Comic-Con, a few official trailers have made their way online promoting In Time, the upcoming stylish science fiction action picture starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried.  A brand new international trailer debuted today, and it's the best of the bunch, basically rolling the previous trailers, with their differing emphases on concept and action, into one very promising mega-trailer.

The preview nicely conveys the premise of a near future in which money has been replaced by units of time.  Everyone is youthfully good-looking, since they're genetically engineered not to physically age past the age of twenty-five (this is why, just this once, Olivia Wilde can convincingly play Justin Timberlake's mom, despite being several years younger than him), but after they hit that quarter-century mark, everyone is on borrowed time.  The poor earn minutes and hours at a time, while the wealthy live forever with stashes of hundreds of years.

Just a few days ago, 20th Century Fox released a trailer for In Time online, putting the oh-so attractive cast front and center and allowing us to glory in the genetic magnificence that produces good-looking people like Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Olivia Wilde, and Cillian Murphy.  While it was a solid trailer, it subsequently disappeared without a trace.

Good news, though, as it has been replaced by an even better trailer that more effectively lays out the rules of writer-director Andrew Niccol's clever riff on Logan's Run.  Basically, in his future, nobody ages above 25 years old, but all time after that has to be earned like a currency, meaning that the rich essentially live forever at their physical peak while the poor die early. 

At San Diego Comic-Con last week, 20th Century Fox rolled out the first trailer for the science fiction actioner In Time, starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried.  The trailer laid out the concept of a future in which money has been replaced by units of time, so after the age of 25, the time-rich can live forever, while everyone else scrabbles and works to make enough time to stay alive.  Timberlake's normal guy character stumbles into a possession of an ungodly amount of time and ends up on the run, and a new trailer released today contains plenty of action, while introducing Olivia Wilde as Timberlake's mother and the weirdness of everyone having little green clocks on their forearms.

An old adage declares, "No news is good news."  On the flipside, any The Dark Knight Rises news is big news, even if it's a hole in the ground.  The latest, however, is not an update on the craft-services table of Christopher Nolan's currently-filming Batman swan song.  Instead, it's some actual casting news that ties into the director's penchant for sliding familiar former-leading men in supporting roles.  This time, it's Matthew Modine, who played the sardonic Private Joker in Full Metal Jacket.

Rodrigo Cortes demonstrated plenty of directorial acumen with last year's Buried, which took place entirely inside a box, with Ryan Reynolds stuck inside.  That sort of technical skill makes his follow-up feature, Red Light, potentially very interesting.  The film stars Sigourney Weaver as a psychologist investigating paranormal occurrences, an investigation which leads her to an ace psychic played by Robert DeNiro.  The first image from the film features DeNiro looking mysterious. 

Disney made no secret that Tron: Legacy was meant to be followed by a gaggle of sequels.  The film itself teases potential follow-ups, briefly including Cillian Murphy as the son of Ed Dillinger, the orginal Tron villain played by David Warner.  The upcoming Tron: Legacy Blu-Ray is evidently packed with hidden Easter eggs, providing clues as to the future of the maybe-franchise.  While the more substantial video Flynn Lives has been scrubbed from the internets by Disney, a new video displays a conversation between Dillinger Jr and a familiar voice.