Jordan Walker’s Latest Film James Vs. His Future Self Nets 4 Canadian Screen Award Nominations
Toronto Film School faculty Jordan Walker’s latest project James Vs His Future Self has been nominated for four Canadian Screen Awards – Best Original Song, Best Original Score, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Original Screenplay.
“It’s kind of the highest honour for Canadian film and TV,” Walker, the film’s producer, said as he reflected on James Vs His Future Self’s four nominations.
James Vs His Future Self is the sixth feature film the TFS Film Production instructor has either produced or written – and with a budget of $2.5 million, it also ranks as the biggest project Walker’s produced to date.
Starring Home Alone’s Daniel Stern and Jonas Chernick, James Vs His Future Self is a comedic sci-fi that follows the story of an uptight young scientist who’s obsessed with time-travelling. When he’s visited by his nihilistic future self, he’s told that he needs to give up his dream of becoming the world’s first time traveler, or else. But when he won’t go along with the plan, it becomes a wicked battle of man versus himself – literally.
Walker said that while the COVID-19 crisis and subsequent theatre closures put an abrupt end to plans for James Vs His Future Self’s theatrical release, it’s now available to an even wider audience via Video on Demand (VOD).
“What a strange time it is right now. A month ago, who would’ve thought our reality would look like this?” Walker lamented. “We had planned on an eight-city Cineplex Theatrical Release for my latest film James Vs His Future Self, but with the theatres closed we’ve had to change that to a VOD release.”
The film is now available on all digital platforms, including iTunes.
First Weekend Club will also host a special virtual Q&A with the film’s writer/director Jeremy Lalonde and star Jonas Chernick on Zoom this Sunday, April 5 at 8 p.m. (EST). For more details, go to https://www.facebook.com/events/208751040401301/
