Roland Emmerich’s director of photography, Anna Foerster, is to take the reins on a sequel to hit 2011 thriller Source Code. It will be her first film as director.

The original starred Jake Gyllenhaal as a fatally wounded soldier in Afghanistan teleported into the body of a stranger, whose last eight minutes aboard a Chicago train hijacked by terrorists he endlessly relives. It was written by Ben Ripley, who will also pen the sequel. But neither the original’s star, Jake Gyllenhaal, nor its director, Duncan Jones, will be involved.

Source Code made $147m (£94m) worldwide from an estimated $30m budget. It was Jones’s first film after the critically acclaimed Moon.

• Interview: Duncan Jones on Source Code