As if we needed another reason to get excited about “Source Code,” Duncan Jones’ follow-up to his brilliant debut film “Moon.”
Following our look at the script, and the casting of Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan and Vera Farmiga in the picture, it seems that one of our favorite actors has now joined the project. Jones, who’s currently prepping the project, which begins filming next month, has revealed via his Twitter feed that Jeffrey Wright has joined the cast of the film.
Jones wrote a few hours ago that he’d “just met with the lovely Vera Farmiga and Jeffrey Wright. Feeling quite thrilled to have two such scorchingly good actors in ‘Source Code.’ ” Scorchingly good seems like a fair description for this pair — Farmiga has been consistently excellent, and is a freshly-minted Oscar nominee for “Up in the Air,” while Wright, who’s consistently underrated for too long, has put in great performances in the likes of “Syriana,” “Ali,” “Cadillac Records” and “W,” as well as in HBO’s “Angels in America,” although he’s perhaps best known for his supporting role as Felix Leiter in the Daniel Craig Bond movies.
While the script has undoubtedly undergone major revisions (Billy Ray has been rewriting), we can take a stab at the roles that the actors are likely to be playing: Monaghan is very likely to be Christina, a girl that Gyllenhaal’s soldier meets during a (sort of…) time travel experiment, while our guess is that Farmiga will play Rutledge, the scientist who invented the ‘Source Code’ program, while Wright would probably play military liaison Goodwin (both parts were originally written for men however, and we can quite easily see either actor in either part.) But then, maybe Ray’s script revisions are more radical. Either way, it’s a damn fine cast, for a damn fine script, being shepherded by a damn fine director, and it can’t get here fast enough.