Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

In Time

7/19/11 - USAToday reported that in the sci-fi thriller In Time (out Oct. 28), Justin Timberlake plays Will, a working-class everyman who runs to get his coffee and to get to work on time. And he has to go on the run with a woman named Sylvia (Amanda Seyfried) when he's falsely accused of a murder.  In Time differs from the norm with a near-future dystopian world created by writer/director Andrew Niccol where moving quickly is a necessity and time literally is money.  The aging gene turns off at age 25, and Will wakes up with a day left on his clock. If he doesn't go to work and make more time, he'll die.  "It's an interesting hypothesis: If you only had a day of time left, how do you spend it? It makes for a very exciting, thrilling story," Timberlake says.  All decisions made in the movie were based on time, even fashion. Niccol says there are "time zones" that have nothing to do with geography. "In the poor zones, everyone has zippers because you need fast fashion. But in the rich zones, someone would have 20 buttons down their shirt almost as a sign of their wealth.  Timberlake, who will appear at Comic-Con to talk about the film.

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