In Time - Wikipedia
In Time - Wikipedia
In Time - Wikipedia
Plot
In 2169, people are genetically engineered
to stop aging on their 25th birthday.
Everyone has a timer on their forearm that
shows their remaining time, when it
reaches zero the person "times out" and
dies instantly. Time has become the
universal currency, transferred directly
between people or stored in capsules. The
country is divided into areas called Time
Zones; Dayton is the poorest, a ghetto
where people rarely have over 24 hours on
their clocks. The richest area is New
Greenwich, where people are wealthy
enough to be effectively immortal.
Cast
Justin Timberlake as Will Salas, a
factory worker who learns the truth
about the time system after a chance
encounter with a man in a bar.
Amanda Seyfried as Sylvia Weis,
daughter of Phillipe Weis. She is
kidnapped by Will and later becomes his
willing accomplice, using her knowledge
of her father's business to help them
upset the system.
Cillian Murphy as Timekeeper Raymond
Leon, a former resident of the ghetto of
Dayton who escaped and became a
Timekeeper.
Alex Pettyfer as Fortis, a thug and time
thief who preys on the residents of
Dayton.
Vincent Kartheiser as Philippe Weis, a
major banker whose companies control
the time system.
Olivia Wilde as Rachel Salas, Will's
mother. Her death by timing out in Will's
arms motivates Will to attack the time
system.
Matt Bomer as Henry Hamilton, a
centenarian who wants to die. He goes
to a bar in Dayton hoping to be killed but
is saved by Will.
Johnny Galecki as Borel, Will's best
friend.
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 and Philippe's mother-in-
law
Jesse Lee Soffer as Webb
Bella Heathcote as Michele Weis,
Sylvia's mother and Philippe's wife
Toby Hemingway as Timekeeper Kors
Melissa Ordway as Leila
Jessica Parker Kennedy as Edouarda
Jeff Staron as Oris
Matt O'Leary as Moser
Nick Lashaway as Ekman
Ray Santiago as Victa
Kris Lemche as Markus
Laura Ashley Samuels as Sagita
Production
Before the film was titled In Time, the
names Now and I'm.mortal were used.[6]
On July 12, 2010, it was reported that
Amanda Seyfried had been offered a lead
role.[7] On July 27, 2010, it was confirmed
that Justin Timberlake had been offered a
lead role.[8] On August 9, 2010, Cillian
Murphy was confirmed to have joined the
cast.[9]
Similar works
The series Tales of Tomorrow in 1952
included an episode, "Time to Go" (episode
29),[14] in which aliens from another galaxy,
who have learned how to use time as a
currency, set up a "time bank" on Earth.
The aliens solicit Earthling customers to
bank some of their time in the bank in
order to earn interest in the form of
extended life. However, the aliens use a
loophole in the contract with their
customers to take all of their time, thus
leaving the Earthlings dead. In Harlan
Ellison's 1965 short story " 'Repent,
Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman", the
crime of being late is punished by a
proportionate amount of time being
"revoked" from one's life. The ultimate
consequence is to run out of time and be
"turned off". This is done by the Master
Timekeeper, or "Ticktockman".
Many of the elements of In Time can be
found in the 1987 short film The Price of
Life,[15] 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.[16] 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.
Copyright lawsuit
Reception
Critical response
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