• The Traveler

  • Austin Everett
  • Set Up
  • Sci-Fi
  • 2019
  • Black List
  • 74.5
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Market: Tue, 15 Oct 2019Sold: Thu, 17 Oct 2019
Executive: Sandino Moya Smith, Adam Rosenberg
ManagerMatt Dartnell (Writ Large)
AgentKyle Jensen, Parker Davis (Verve)
StudioMGM
A man jumps forward in time at the same time every morning. As the length of the time increases for every jump, he struggles to keep his family together and find a cure, all as his secret spreads throughout the world. Basd on the novel by Joseph Eckert.
A father struggles to keep his family together as he find himself jumping through elongated periods of time.
Every day at exactly the same time a man slips away from the earth and suddenly returns. For him, no time has passed, but for the rest of the world, time goes on and the amount of time he's gong continues to double.
A man struggles to gain control of his mysterious ability to jump forward in time.
Film
Film, High Concept, Drama, Period, Sci-fi, Father/Son
118
PG-13
Ultra High
M
Unspecified
47
Average
Groundhog Day, Happy Death Day, Looper, Russian Doll (TV), 2001: A Space Odyssey, Manifest, About Time, Project Almanac
49 days over the course of 825 billion years
Road curbside, three small suburban houses, kitchen, two bedrooms, doctor's office, research lab, two university professors' offices, bio lab, a Greyhound bus station, hotel room, Berkeley dorm room, Bancroft Library, diner, an underground hallway, a secluded cabin, a bunker, an underground secret cavern, an elevator, an elementary school, Portland, gas station, a futuristic city, a barren wasteland, a desolate city, grassy plains, hillside, canyon, volcano, the atmosphere, Himalayas, land of ash, deep space
SCOTT TREDER (47) gets a headache and jumps time while driving and finds himself a day ahead of where he was. AMY (45) and LYLE (7), his family, take him to get examined by the doctor, to no avail.

Scott jumps while at work this time jumping two days. He convinces Amy to stay with him the next morning to prove he's not disappearing willingly. He then jumps four days and confirms the days are doubling.

He meets theoretical physics professor MAGGIE (50s) who performs tests on Scott with her assistants.

On jump six, 32 days later, Scott is met with a plethora of cameras and crowds. Maggie tells him her assistant recorded him disappearing and that she had no part in his viral success. With the tests proving nothing, Scott leaves to find Amy and Lyle. After jump nine, 256 days, Lyle promises to save his Dad.

On jump 10, 1.5 years later, Amy rashly divorces Scott and takes Lyle to Portland so they can't see him again. He tries to follow them anyways. Jump 13, three years, Lyle, now thirteen, and Scott reunite and the two bond whilst hidden from Amy. Lyle informs Scott of Amy's new boyfriend and shows Scott his technology he created called...