But those are the perils of using your film to set up a franchise without any certainty that there will, in fact, be anyone that wants it. Sometimes, when you are trying to plan on several films at once, you forget to concentrate on the one you're making. People will not want two of your films if they don't like the first one. Enter Jumper. Jumper was a film that had everything going for it. It had a star director (Doug Liman, fresh off the smash Mr. and Mrs. Smith), a hot movie star (Hayden Christensen, not quite yet fully meme'd), and a beloved science-fiction novel with a killer hook that fans had been clamoring to be made into a movie for nearly two decades. Heck, that novel already had its own sequel! This thing was ready-made to be a franchise.