It’s clearly the season for talented youngsters facing trouble from America’s National Security Agency. On the heels of Doug Liman’s Jumper comes news of Evan Oppenheimer’s The Speed Of Thought. The plot focuses on Joshua Lazarus (Nick Stahl), a “scoper” with special telepathic skills. He’s been raised in an NSA foster home for gifted kids and works willingly for the government even as he is told that his abilities are a side effect of Widmann’s Disease, and that it’ll slowly drive him insane before he dies from the illness. But then he meets a woman with similar powers (Hustle And Flow's Taryn Manning), who has them without any sign of the disease and realises that – whoops – his entire life has been a lie! Poseidon’s Mia Maestro is also starring.

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X men is a film about people born with special powers! The goverment have nothing to do with them! And by teh sound of it this is gonna be obvious how it plays out! Stahl's character has his powers from birth but the goverment make up the desease thing to control him! So stahl, discovering this turns on the goverment and makes them pay! with him eventually getting it on with the woman he meets with the same powers! i hope it isnt as simple as that, but i have a bad feeling about this! ... Read More clarkkent About me
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Joshua Lazarus! This will go down in the annuls of cheesy character names. ... Read More sanchia About me
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this sounds very tasty. however i wish theyd stop with these special powers institutions and helping government plots like xmen. howabout just average guy born with these powers and he uses it to his advantage to get ahead in life with women money etc a teenager, mayb chuck in a serial killer i dunno. just realised i was giving the plot outline 4 'what women want'- doh! but u know wot i mean kinda like first spiderman film, except teenager goes through school with telepathy- the first time he le... Read More dan8210 About me
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And then he starts exploding peoples' heads with his mind! ... Read More Keenan About me
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This sounds really really good!!! ... Read More taz_e About me
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