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The new science fiction film “In Time” is predicated on a single high-concept: In the near future, aging ends at 25. Beyond that, people have one year left to live, their remaining time is displayed on a bioluminescent watch on their arms. With time serving as currency in this new world, the wealthy are essentially immortal, while the poor typically live day to day, struggling to earn more time to stay alive. The conceit sprung from the mind of writer-director Andrew Niccol, who explored similar territory with his 1997 feature debut, “Gattaca,” which presented a world in which the genetically gifted constitute the world’s upper class. The filmmaker freely acknowledges the connection between the films — referring to “In Time” as “‘Gattaca’ revisited” — but he said his latest feature, which opens in theaters Friday, afforded him an opportunity to ...

“Gattaca” writer-director Andrew Niccol has taken the next step in genetic engineering. His upcoming sci-fi flick “In Time” depicts a future where the aging gene stops at 25, so the film presents the unusual challenge for young actors to portray characters who are well into their 70s and even 100s. At the premiere of “In Time,” Niccol told Hero Complex that the actors playing older characters “had to have something ancient about them. I think especially Vincent Kartheiser – there’s something about him that I just go, ‘Wow, yeah, he can play someone who’s 100 years old.’ Not everyone can.” The concept meant that actors around the same age had to play each other’s parents and children. Olivia Wilde plays Justin Timberlake’s mother even though she’s nearly three years younger than he is. Kartheiser took on the role of 110-year-old ...

The Twentieth Century Fox panel in Hall H at Comic-Con International was devoted to the revival of two storied sci-fi franchises, with returns to the universes of “Alien” and the “Planet of the Apes,” but one movie Fox brought had neither the burden nor the privilege of being part of a beloved franchise: “In Time,” a futuristic thriller written and directed by “Gattaca” writer-director Andrew Niccol. Niccol described the challenge of casting a film in which every character stops aging at 25 years old. “I was looking for new souls and old souls,” he said. “I had to find a 105-year-old man in a 25-year-old body.” Timberlake, who appeared on stage with costar Amanda Seyfried, plays one of the young souls, a Robin Hood-like character who steals time from the rich to give to the poor. It was Timberlake’s first trip ...

“Rise of the Planet of the Apes” returns a storied sci-fi epic to screen but the creative team promised fans at Comic-Con International that they would see an entirely new vision with this seventh “Apes” feature film. “It’s never been possible to tell this story, technologically,” “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” director Rupert Wyatt told the audience, explaining why Fox is revisiting the franchise just a decade after Tim Burton interpreted the story about chimps that achieve humanlike levels of intelligence. “We wanted to tell our story without using live apes for any number of reasons. It would be a cruel irony to tell the story of the exploited and repressed and use live apes to do so.” Andy Serkis, who delivers a motion-capture performance as lead ape Caesar, appeared to explain why he took this role after playing an ...