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.

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The preview nicely conveys the premise of a near future in which money has been replaced by units of time.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.

At Comic-Con International in San Diego on Thursday the cast and crew of In Time appeared in Hall H to discuss their new film. On hand were the film's stars Justin Timberlake (Bad Teacher), and Amanda Seyfried (Dear John), as well as director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca). 

IAR had a chance to catch up with Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, and director Andrew Niccol after their panel on Thursday to discuss the upcoming film.

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.

Last week, Saoirse Ronan, who recently snapped necks and stomped ass in Hanna, signed on to play the lead in The Host, an adaptation of novelist Stephenie Meyer's follow-up to the 'Twilight' series.  Since that previous series resulted in a massively profitable film franchise, The Host is kind of a big deal.  A big deal which, for the last several months, has been in need of a director.  Now, though, the original director, Andrew Niccol, has returned to the project, having already written the screenplay.

Whether she's holding together a dramatic shamblefest like The Lovely Bones or kicking ass without even bothering to take names as Hanna, Saoirse Ronan has proven to be a reliable lead actress of nearly preternatural talent.  Novelist Stephenie Meyer is another proven commodity, having spawned the hugely profitable Twilight franchise.  Now, it seems the precocious Ronan and the unstoppable Meyer are uniting, as Deadline reports that Ronan will star in The Host, an adaptation of Meyer's dramatic science fiction novel.

Inception star Cillian Murphy is getting ready to join Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried in Andrew Niccol's (Gattaca) sci-fi thriller I'm.mortal, reports Heat Vision Blog. While Murphy is a benevolent figure in Christopher Nolan's Inception, he's played many a bad guy in his time, most notably in Nolan's Batman Begins and Wes Craven's Red Eye. Seems like he'll be doing so again in this futuristic suspense flick...