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It didn't. "I sat down with a few producers, and the first couple just looked at me like I was nuts", confesses Ripley. "Ultimately, I had to put it on the page to make my case."The original spec script was originally sold to Universal Pictures in 2007 but was ranked on The Black List of top unproduced screenplays.[9]After seeing Moon, Gyllenhaal lobbied for Jones to direct Source Code; Jones liked the fast-paced script; as he later said: "There were all sorts of challenges, and puzzles, and I kind of like solving puzzles, so it was kind of fun for me to work out how to achieve all these difficult things that were set up in the script."[10]In the ending scene, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan's characters are seen walking through Millennium Park and making their way to the Cloud Gate. In a 2011 interview, Gyllenhaal discussed how director Duncan Jones felt that the structure was a metaphor for the movie's subject matter and aimed for it to feature at the beginning and end of the movie.[11]Principal photography began on March 1, 2010, in Montreal, Quebec, and ended on April 29, 2010.[12] Several scenes were shot in Chicago, Illinois, specifically at Millennium Park and the Main Building at the Illinois Institute of Technology, although the sign showing the name of the latter, in the intersection of 31st Street and S LaSalle Street, was edited out.Initially, some filming was scheduled at the Ottawa Train Station in Ottawa, Ontario,[13] but was canceled for lack of an agreement with VIA Rail.[14]Editing took place in Los Angeles. In July 2010, the film was in the visual effects stage of postproduction.[15] Most of the VFX work was handled by Montreal studios, including Moving Picture Company, Rodeo FX, Oblique FX, and Fly Studio.[16] Jones had confirmed that the film's soundtrack would be composed by Clint Mansell, in his second collaboration with the composer.[17] Mansell was announced as no longer scoring the soundtrack due to time constraints.[18]The film received its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 11, 2011.[19] Summit Entertainment released the film to theaters in the United States and Canada on April 1, 2011. In France, the film was released on April 20, 2011.[20]Source Code was released on DVD and Blu-ray simultaneously in the United States on July 26, 2011,[21][22] with the United Kingdom release on DVD and Blu-ray (as well as a combined DVD/Blu-ray package) on August 15, 2011.[23] In the UK, there was also a Blu-ray/DVD "Double Play" release featuring a lenticular slipcover.Source Code grossed $54.7 million in the United States and Canada and $92.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $147.3 million, against a production budget of $32 million.[24]The film was released in theaters on April 1, 2011. In the United States and Canada, Source Code was released theatrically in 2,961 conventional theaters.[25] The film made $14.8 million and debuted second on its opening weekend.[25]Despite its grosses, according to director Duncan Jones, the studio claims that the film has
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