According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hayden Christensen is starring in Jumper,  Regency Enterprises' big-budget thriller being directed by Doug Liman.

Meanwhile, Regency has partnered with 20th Century Fox to finance the production, which sources say is budgeted in the $100 million range. Christensen's casting jump-starts the production, which was to have begun shooting earlier this summer but had been running idle.

Tom Sturridge was to have played the lead role of David, which now will be played by Christensen, since a decision was made to go with a more prominent actor. Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell and Teresa Palmer remain with the production.

Jumper, which Regency and Fox hope to turn into a trilogy, will now shoot at month's end in Toronto, Rome and Tokyo.