Source Code sci-fi thriller premieres at SXSW

[March 12, 2011]  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Director Duncan Jones has premiered his tech-savvy thriller Source Code at the high-tech South by Southwest festival.

Austin's South by Southwest combines film, music and new technology.

Source Code's stars Jake Gyllenhall, Michele Monaghan and Vera Farmiga walked the red carpet into the Paramount Theater for the world premiere.

Source Code follows an Air Force captain who finds himself inside another man's body in order to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. Gyllenhaal plays the captain, Farmiga his air force handler and Monaghan a passenger on the train. The film deals with traveling to parallel universes.

This is Jones' second feature-length film. He premiered his first film, Moon, at South by Southwest in 2009.

Source Code opens nationwide on April 1.

[Associated Press; By CHRIS TOMLINSON]

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