The filmmaker who created Gattaca sees a direct link between his 1997 sci-fi cult classic and his upcoming gene-themed mind-melter, In Time.
“I think of it as the bastard child of Gattaca because at the time I thought the holy grail of genetic engineering, of course, is to find the aging gene and switch it off,” writer-director Andre Niccol said in an interview with Collider.com. “The implications were so huge that I thought, ‘That’s another movie.’ And it turns out, it has become another movie.”
As In Time‘s stars Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried told Wired.com this summer in the video interview below, the sci-fi movie takes place in a nightmarish future where wealthy people live forever, while regular folks are genetically programmed to die at age 25. Individuals’ lifespans are measured by clocks implanted in their forearms.
Niccol provided more details about In Time‘s creepy digital readout, saying it is fueled “through the electricity in your pulse. So it’s the natural electricity in your body and it’s in every cell of your body. It’s not as if you can cut your clock off.”
In Time , rated PG-13 and co-starring Cillian Murphy (Inception) and Olivia Wilde (Tron: Legacy), opens Oct. 28.
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