Jones recently directed his debut feature film, Moon. Produced by Liberty Films (UK), the film was shot in the UK between January and March 2008. It is a sci-fi thriller starring Sam Rockwell.
Moon recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it was purchased for distribution in the United States by Sony Picture Classics. Sony Classics released the film on 12 June 2009 in the US. The film's British premiere was held on 20 June 2009 at the Cameo Cinema in Edinburgh as part of the 63rd Edinburgh International Film Festival. Jones was present at the screening along with other key crew members.
Moon was screened at the NASA Space Center in Houston at the request of a professor there. The screening was part of a lecture series. "He'd been reading online that we'd done this film about Helium-3 mining and that's something that people at NASA are working on," says Jones.[7] "We did a Q&A afterward. They asked me why the base looked so sturdy, like a bunker, and not like the kind of stuff they are designing that they are going to transport with them. I said 'Well, in the future I assume you won't want to continue carrying everything with you, you'll want to use the resources on the moon to build things' and a woman in the audience raised her hand and said, 'I'm actually working on something called Mooncrete, which is concrete that mixes lunar regolith and ice water from the moon's polar caps.'"
Jones is currently planning a follow up film, which will serve as an epilogue to Moon. "Sam has agreed to do a little cameo in the next film," says Jones,[7] who ultimately hopes to do three films in the Moon series.
It was recently announced that he will direct the feature film adaptation of Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew byAlex Kershaw.[8]
Jones also revealed that he will be doing "another science fiction film, called Mute, which takes place in a future Berlin. It's a Blade Runner-inspired piece, a little love letter to that film."[9]
He will direct Summit Entertainment project Source Code[10], a Science-Fiction thriller from Vendome Pictures, which will be produced by Mark Gordon. Actor Jake Gyllenhaalis in negotiations to play a major role in the film.[11]
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