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For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDbs Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for Jumper can be found at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489099/parentalguide.

This film was adapted (and we use that term loosely) from the novel Jumper by Steven Gould. Gould's book is the first of a series.

In early 2005, David S. Goyer was hired to adapt the first novel in Steven Gould's series. His adaptation hewed close to the book, but the studio didn't like it.

The studio hired Jim Uhls to improve the characterizations and Simon Kinberg to improve the action scenes.

No. The "jumpers" in this movie can teleport themselves, just like Nightcrawler. But there are differences.

Nightcrawler can teleport himself, and any objects and persons he is contact with; but his range is only two miles, at most, under normal conditions because it is line-of-sight based (He can only teleport to places he can see at the time. Otherwise, as he told Storm in X2: X-Men United, he "might end up inside a wall."). Nightcrawler uses a "shortcut" through an alternate dimension called Limbo, which is similar to Hell and accounts for the smoke and the smell of brimstone that accompany his teleportations.

The jumpers, on the other hand, can teleport themselves, or any objects and persons they are in contact with, to anywhere they've been or can visualize, through a short-lived wormhole. Their range is apparently unlimited. At least, it is unlimited as long as they stay on Earth. Whether jumpers can teleport to, say, the Apollo 11 landing site in the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon or Olympus Mons on Mars is unknown.

Nightcrawler lives in a world of mutants. The only known mutants in Jumper are the jumpers.

A much closer phenomenom, physics-wise, to the jumps we see in this film would actually be the FTL jumps on Ron Moore and David Eick's reimagined Battlestar Galactica, although those are obviously on a much grander scale.

Yes. Jumper, the video game, is available for the X-Box 360, Playstation 2, and Nintendo Wii gaming consoles. The game was released February 12, 2008, two days before the film's release.

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