It took roughly eight years from the time President John F. Kennedy announced that America would be entering the space race to the day that Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon.

It may take that long until director Doug Liman gets to join him.

"I want to have a locked script before I start shooting. That's my goal," Liman recently told MTV News of the long gestating "Moon" project he's been developing with Jake Gyllenhaal, which just recently picked up a new writer.

Which means it's back to the drawing board, at least in part. But while Liman is keeping plot details a secret (they may change anyway), he's certain the patriotic tone of the movie will remain consistent with his current vision. Read more...

Admit it, most DVD extras are self-indulgent, ego-stroking puff pieces that — if we’re lucky — include a little illumination amid the glorification.

And we love it (and rightfully so, since so much of it has the added bonus of being cool). But it’s not for Doug Liman, who told MTV News that the bonus features on his newest DVD, “Jumper,” will include glimpses into all the drama that the production could muster. And then some.

“We had to frantically recast and start shooting while we were still working on the script,” he said of the film. “With ‘Jumper,’ I thought we were back to the days of ‘Swingers.’ It’s a locked script. We’ll just go shoot it. Suddenly next thing I know I’m back in the waters of no script, trying to figure out what we can shoot, what’s actually been written, and figuring it out as we go along. You get to see that.

“We had a documentary film crew follow us and we let them put whatever they wanted on the DVD, so I think it’s a much more interesting beyond [the norm],” he continued. “It was just grueling.” Read more...