While audiences decide this weekend whether Friends With Benefits actor Justin Timberlake is a movie star, Timberlake himself was in San Diego to briefly talk up his next big film, the sci-fi thriller In Time. It’s got a great concept: In the future, no one physically ages past 25, but if you want to stay alive and immortal, you’ve got to acquire more time for your internal clock … and that life time is the currency of the land, used even for drinks and cab rides. It’s also got a great pedigree, since director Andrew Niccol wrote The Truman Show and directed the underrated sci-fi classic Gattaca, two excellent elaborations on a provocative premise. But does Timberlake have the chops to sell himself as an action hero? Based on this footage, we’re not quite sure, but the crowd at Comic-Con answered the movie-star question handily: When Timberlake took the Hall H stage to introduce his movie, the deafening cheers were some of the biggest of the weekend (and outranked the reception given to Comic-Con living gods like Peter Jackson and Nicolas Cage). [IGN]
