MUMBAI: Director Duncan Jones‘ new action thriller Source Code will have its world premiere as the opening-night film at the South By Southwest Film Festival, Texas, on 11 March next year.

The complete lineup for the 2011 festival will be announced in early February. The event runs till 19 March.

The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a soldier who continually wakes up in the bodies of different train commuters in the last eight minutes before each dies in a bombing. Eventually, it becomes clear that he is on a mission to discover who set the explosive so he can prevent a second, larger detonation.

Jones, the son of David Bowie, screened his first film, Moon at the same festival last year.

The Summit Entertainment release will open in theaters on April 1.