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On September 15, 2011, according to ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'', a suit was filed by attorneys on behalf of speculative fiction writer [[Harlan Ellison]] that the film's plot was based on his award-winning 1965 [[short story]] "[["Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman|{{'}}Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman]]". |
On September 15, 2011, according to ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'', a suit was filed by attorneys on behalf of speculative fiction writer [[Harlan Ellison]] that the film's plot was based on his award-winning 1965 [[short story]] "[["Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman|{{'}}Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman]]". |
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The suit, naming New Regency and director Andrew Niccol as well as a number of anonymous [[John Doe]]s, appears to base its claim on the similarity that both the completed film along with Ellison's story concern a dystopian future in which people have a set amount of time to live which can be revoked, given certain pertaining circumstances by a recognized authority known as a Timekeeper. Initially, the suit demanded an injunction against the film's release;<ref>Gardner, Eriq. [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/harlan-ellison-sues-claiming-foxs-235987 "Harlan Ellison Sues Claiming Fox's 'In Time' Rips Off Sci-Fi Story (Exclusive)"]. ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]''. September 15, 2011</ref> however, Ellison later altered his suit to instead ask for screen credit<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_movies_blog/2011/11/ellison-wins-in-time-lawsuit-but-only-asks-for-credit-to-be-given.html|title=Ellison wants 'In Time' concessions — only asks for credit?|date=August 26, 2014|work=OrlandoSentinel.com|accessdate=October 5, 2014}}</ref> before ultimately dropping the suit, with both sides releasing the following joint statement: "After seeing the film ''In Time'', Harlan Ellison decided to voluntarily dismiss the Action. No payment or screen credit was promised or given to Harlan Ellison. The parties wish each other well, and have no further comment on the matter."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://scifistorm.org/2011/12/01/ellison-drops-lawsuit-after-watching-in-time// |title=Ellison drops lawsuit after watching In Time |author= |date=1 December 2011 |work= |publisher=scifistorm.org }}</ref> |
The suit, naming New Regency and director Andrew Niccol as well as a number of anonymous [[John Doe]]s, appears to base its claim on the similarity that both the completed film along with Ellison's story concern a dystopian future in which people have a set amount of time to live which can be revoked, given certain pertaining circumstances by a recognized authority known as a Timekeeper. Initially, the suit demanded an injunction against the film's release;<ref>Gardner, Eriq. [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/harlan-ellison-sues-claiming-foxs-235987 "Harlan Ellison Sues Claiming Fox's 'In Time' Rips Off Sci-Fi Story (Exclusive)"]. ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]''. September 15, 2011</ref> however, Ellison later altered his suit to instead ask for screen credit<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_movies_blog/2011/11/ellison-wins-in-time-lawsuit-but-only-asks-for-credit-to-be-given.html |title=Ellison wants 'In Time' concessions — only asks for credit? |date=August 26, 2014 |work=OrlandoSentinel.com |accessdate=October 5, 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130213083348/http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_movies_blog/2011/11/ellison-wins-in-time-lawsuit-but-only-asks-for-credit-to-be-given.html |archivedate=February 13, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> before ultimately dropping the suit, with both sides releasing the following joint statement: "After seeing the film ''In Time'', Harlan Ellison decided to voluntarily dismiss the Action. No payment or screen credit was promised or given to Harlan Ellison. The parties wish each other well, and have no further comment on the matter."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://scifistorm.org/2011/12/01/ellison-drops-lawsuit-after-watching-in-time// |title=Ellison drops lawsuit after watching In Time |author= |date=1 December 2011 |work= |publisher=scifistorm.org }}</ref> |
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== Similar works == |
== Similar works == |
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Directed by | Andrew Niccol |
Written by | Andrew Niccol |
Produced by |
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Starring | |
Cinematography | Roger Deakins |
Edited by | Zach Staenberg |
Music by | Craig Armstrong |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date |
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Running time | 109 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $40 million[2] |
Box office | $173.9 million[3] |
In Time is a 2011 American dystopian science fiction action thriller film written, directed, and produced by Andrew Niccol and starring Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried and Cillian Murphy that takes place in a society where people stop aging at 25 and each has a clock on their arm that counts down how long they have to live. The film was released on October 28, 2011.
Plot
![]() | This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. (September 2015) |
In 2169, people are genetically engineered to stop aging on their 25th birthday. Each has a digital clock on their forearm; when they turn 25, they stop aging and their clock begins counting down from 1 year.[Note 1] When the clock reaches zero, that person "times out" and dies. Time has become the universal currency, and can be transferred between people or "time capsules". The film focuses on two specific "time zones": Dayton - a poor manufacturing area where people generally have 24 hours or less on their clock at any given time - and New Greenwich - the wealthiest time zone, where people have enough time on their clock to live for centuries.
Will Salas is a 28-year-old Dayton factory worker living with his 50-year-old mother Rachel. He saves a drunken 105-year-old man named Henry Hamilton from an attempted robbery by a gang of "Minutemen" (time-robbing thugs) led by 75-year-old Fortis. Hamilton reveals to Will that the people of New Greenwich hoard most of the time for themselves to live forever, while constantly increasing the cost of living keeps poorer people dying. The next morning, Hamilton transfers 116 years of his time to a sleeping Will, before timing out and falling off a bridge. Raymond Leon, leader of the police-like Timekeepers erroneously assumes that Will played a part in Hamilton's death.
Will visits his best friend Borel and tells him of the time he received. Borel warns him that having so much time within Dayton will get him killed. Will gives Borel ten years in return for their years of friendship before going to wait for his mother so they can move to New Greenwich. Rachel uses all but 90 minutes of her time to pay off a 2-day loan and finds herself short for bus fare to get home. She urges the bus driver to lend her a loan of 30 minutes that her son will pay off but to which he refuses and advises her to run. She times out in Will's arms before they can reach each other and Will can lend her time.
The following morning, Will heads to New Greenwich. He visits a local casino and meets 110-year-old time-loaning businessman Philippe Weis and his 27-year-old daughter Sylvia. While playing poker with Weis, Will comes dangerously close to timing out, but eventually wins 1,100 years. Sylvia invites him to a party in the Weis mansion. Will buys a car and drives himself to the party, where the Timekeepers arrest him.
Dismissing Will's claim of innocence, Raymond confiscates all but two hours of his time. Will takes Sylvia as hostage and drives back to Dayton. They are ambushed by Fortis' gang, and are left with 30 minutes each. Will attempts to get some time back from Borel, but his wife Greta tells him that he has drunk himself to death with nine years left on his clock. Sylvia pawns her jewelry for extra time, and Will calls Weis to demand a 1,000 year ransom. When Weis refuses to pay, Will decides to release Sylvia. She calls Weis from a pay phone, but they are ambushed by Raymond, whom Sylvia shoots by accident.
Will and Sylvia decide to team up and begin robbing Weis' time banks, giving the extra time capsules to the poor. After a ten-year reward is offered for their capture, Fortis' gang tracks them down to a hotel room. Fortis challenges Will to a "time-duel" to the death, in which Will times out Fortis by applying his father's time duel trick and shoots the rest of the gang. However, the pair realize they cannot steal enough time to significantly change things, as New Greenwich simply raises prices to compensate for the extra time citizens now have.
They successfully rob Weis' personal vault and obtain the one-million-years capsule. Raymond chases them back to Dayton, but is too late to stop them from distributing the stolen time as Will distributes the time to the girl. After chasing them to the city's outskirts, Raymond reveals that he also came from Dayton and intends to stop other Daytoners from doing the same. However, he realizes too late that he forgot to collect his daily time allotment and times out. Will and Sylvia, each with just over a minute to live, race to Raymond's patrol car. Will collects Raymond's daily share and runs back to Sylvia in a scene reminiscent of his mother's death. This time, he saves her when her clock only has seconds left.
TV reports show factories in Dayton shutting down as everyone has enough time and abandons their jobs to go to New Greenwich. Will and Sylvia continue robbing banks as part of their efforts to crash the system, while the rich attempt to cope with the sudden surge of people infiltrating their zone.
Cast
- Justin Timberlake as Will Salas
- Amanda Seyfried as Sylvia Weis
- Cillian Murphy as Timekeeper Raymond Leon
- Alex Pettyfer as Fortis
- Vincent Kartheiser as Philippe Weis
- Olivia Wilde as Rachel Salas
- Matt Bomer as Henry Hamilton
- Johnny Galecki as Borel
- Collins Pennie as Timekeeper Jaeger
- Ethan Peck as Constantin
- Yaya DaCosta as Greta, Borel's wife
- Rachel Roberts as Carrera
- August Emerson as Levi
- Sasha Pivovarova as Clara Weis (Sylvia's grandmother)
- Jesse Lee Soffer as Webb
- Bella Heathcote as Michele Weis (Sylvia's mother)
- Toby Hemingway as Timekeeper Kors
- Melissa Ordway as Leila
- Jessica Parker Kennedy as Edouarda
- Christoph Sanders as Nixon
- Jeff Staron as Oris
- Matt O'Leary as Moser
- Nick Lashaway as Ekman
- Ray Santiago as Victa
- Kris Lemche as Markus
Production
Before the film was titled In Time, the names Now and I'm.mortal were used.[4] On July 12, 2010, it was reported that Amanda Seyfried had been offered a lead role.[5] On July 27, 2010, it was confirmed that Justin Timberlake had been offered a lead role.[6] On August 9, 2010, Cillian Murphy was confirmed to have joined the cast.[7]
The first photos from the set were revealed on October 28, 2010.[8] 20th Century Fox and New Regency distributed the film, and Marc Abraham and Eric Newman's Strike Entertainment produced it.[9]
In an interview with Kristopher Tapley of InContention.com Roger Deakins stated that he would be shooting the film in digital, which makes this the first film to be shot in digital by the veteran cinematographer.[10]
The Dayton scenes were filmed primarily in the Skid Row and Boyle Heights neighborhoods of Los Angeles, while the New Greenwich scenes were filmed primarily in Century City, Bel Air, and Malibu. Although the names of the ghetto-like zone and wealthy enclave reflect Dayton and Greenwich, respectively, the maps used by the Timekeepers are maps of Los Angeles, CA.
Using the common device of Future-Retro, the production's vehicle suppliers assembled a fleet of cars and trucks from used car lots and junkyards. Although an ancient Citroën DS 21 and Cadillac Seville feature, center stage goes to a fleet of seemingly immaculate Dodge Challengers and Lincoln Continentals. The rich drive around in the high gloss Lincolns, all of which have been smoothed, lowered and fitted with oversized disc wheels on low profile rubber. The Dodges are the Time Keeper's cop cars. These too have been smoothed and externally customized, with grilles front and rear covering the lights, and low profile tires on disc wheels. In stark contrast to the Lincolns, paintwork is matte black. A slim police light-bar is fitted internally, behind the windshield. Externally this fleet looked immaculate but no money was spent on what would not be seen and many of the vehicles had wrecked interiors, with ripped seats, carpets and head-linings. Because the cars had been assembled from many sources and prepared to look identical, the interiors of most were of a color which did not match the black exteriors. The best of the Lincoln Continentals, for instance, whose interior is seen in the production, is trimmed out in blue.
The use of future retro is one of many elements that the film seems to share with Niccol's earlier work, Gattaca. The earlier work also features electrically powered vintage cars (notably a Rover P6 and again, a Citroën DS), as well as buildings of indeterminate age. Gattaca also deals with innate inequalities (though in its case genetic, rather than longevity) and the film's protagonist also seeks to cross the divide that his birthright is supposed to deny him. Similarly, he is pursued by law enforcement officers after being wrongly identified as having committed a murder.
Copyright lawsuit
On September 15, 2011, according to The Hollywood Reporter, a suit was filed by attorneys on behalf of speculative fiction writer Harlan Ellison that the film's plot was based on his award-winning 1965 short story "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman".
The suit, naming New Regency and director Andrew Niccol as well as a number of anonymous John Does, appears to base its claim on the similarity that both the completed film along with Ellison's story concern a dystopian future in which people have a set amount of time to live which can be revoked, given certain pertaining circumstances by a recognized authority known as a Timekeeper. Initially, the suit demanded an injunction against the film's release;[11] however, Ellison later altered his suit to instead ask for screen credit[12] before ultimately dropping the suit, with both sides releasing the following joint statement: "After seeing the film In Time, Harlan Ellison decided to voluntarily dismiss the Action. No payment or screen credit was promised or given to Harlan Ellison. The parties wish each other well, and have no further comment on the matter."[13]
Similar works
Many of the elements of In Time can be found in the 1987 short film The Price of Life,[14] made by Chanticleer Films. Its basic premise and storyline are so similar that In Time has been called an unacknowledged remake of the earlier film.[15] The Price of Life was a 38-minute short film (story by Stephen Tolkin and Michel Monteaux) in which a time account is physically linked to every infant at birth, with death automatic when the balance drops to zero. An elite upper-class is portrayed as living hundreds of years or more. The protagonist is given a certain amount of time as an infant, and as a young boy adds days and years to his time account by buying valuables from people and selling them to visiting tourists from the rich enclave. After his sister dies after gambling away her time, the protagonist (now a young man) sets out on a journey to the enclave of "the Old Ones" in order to save the life of his mother, who is (literally) running out of time. He gets there and meets a beautiful older woman who co-opts him into the immortal lifestyle.
The movie Logan's Run (1976) depicts a city where everyone is destroyed when they reach the age of 30. The protagonists are Sandmen who hunt Runners trying to avoid destruction.[16]
It also shares many of the elements of the short story "Time is Money" by Lee Falk, which was published in 1975.[17]
Reception
Critical response
The film received generally mixed reviews from critics, with praise over the originality and cast performances, but had criticism for the lack of character development; review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 36% of 152 critics gave the movie a positive review, with a rating average of 5.2 out of 10. The website's consensus reads, "In Time's intriguing premise and appealing cast are easily overpowered by the blunt, heavy-handed storytelling."[18] Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gives the film a score of 53 based on 36 reviews.[19] CinemaScore polls reported that the average grade moviegoers gave the film was a "B-minus" on an A+ to F scale.[20] Roger Ebert gave the film a positive review with 3 stars out of 4, noting that the "premise is damnably intriguing", but "a great deal of this film has been assembled from standard elements".[21] Henry Barnes noted that Will is "one of the 99%" and calls the character "a Rolex Robin Hood".[22] The film has since earned enough popularity and positive word of mouth to frequently air on basic cable stations such as FX (TV Channel).
Box office
In Time grossed $12,050,368 on its opening weekend, debuting at number three behind Puss in Boots, and Paranormal Activity 3. The film declined later on during its 14 weekend box office run. The film eventually grossed over $37,520,095 domestically, behind its $40 million budget, and $136,410,501 internationally for a worldwide total of $173,930,596.[3]
Notes
- ^ It is not actually a full year. When the countdown starts, it switches from 1 year to 51 weeks, 6 days, 23 hours, 59 mins and 59 seconds, which equals only 364 days.
References
- ^ "IN TIME (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. October 11, 2011. Retrieved September 4, 2012.
- ^ Kaufman, Amy (October 27, 2011). "Movie Projector: 'Puss in Boots' to stomp on competition". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. Retrieved October 27, 2011.
- ^ a b "In Time (2011)". Box Office Mojo. December 22, 2011. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
- ^ Rich, Katey (November 1, 2010). "I'm. mortal Retitled Now, Adds Alex Pettyfer And Matt Bomer To Cast". Cinema Blend. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
- ^ Gallagher, Brian (July 12, 2010). "Amanda Seyfried Signs on to I'm.mortal". MovieWeb.com. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
- ^ Douglas, Edward (July 27, 2010). "Justin Timberlake Leading I'm.mortal?". ComingSoon.net. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
- ^ Gallagher, Brian (August 9, 2010). "Cillian Murphy to Star in I'm.mortal". MovieWeb.com. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
- ^ "Timberlake and Seyfried Spotted Filming Their New Thriller". ComingSoon.net. October 28, 2010. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
- ^ Sneider, Jeff (August 9, 2010). "Justin Timberlake, Cillian Murphy in Talks to Join 'I'm.mortal". TheWrap.com. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
- ^ Tapley, Kristopher (December 22, 2010). "TECH SUPPORT INTERVIEW: 'True Grit' cinematographer Roger Deakins". InContention.com. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
- ^ Gardner, Eriq. "Harlan Ellison Sues Claiming Fox's 'In Time' Rips Off Sci-Fi Story (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. September 15, 2011
- ^ "Ellison wants 'In Time' concessions — only asks for credit?". OrlandoSentinel.com. August 26, 2014. Archived from the original on February 13, 2013. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
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- ^ The Price of Life at Vimeo
- ^ Bryan, Steven (October 25, 2011). "Does 'In Time' Owe a Debt to 'American Playhouse's' 'The Price of Life'? - Yahoo! Movies". Movies.yahoo.com. Retrieved July 5, 2013.
- ^ Eric Volkman (October 27, 2011). "In Time (2011) -vs- Logan's Run (1976)". Movie Smackdown.
- ^ "Film: In Time". TV Tropes. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
- ^ "In Time (2011)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
- ^ "In Time Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved October 28, 2011.
- ^ Finke, Nikki (October 30, 2011). "Snow Ices Box Office: 'Puss In Boots' #1, 'Paranormal' #2, 'In Time' #3, 'Rum Diary' #4". Deadline.com. PMC. Retrieved October 30, 2011.
- ^ "In Time". Chicago Sun-Times.
- ^ Henry Barnes (November 4, 2011). "In Time – review". The Guardian.
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- 2011 films
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- Film scores by Craig Armstrong (composer)
- Films about time
- Films directed by Andrew Niccol
- Films produced by Marc Abraham
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