Brick director Rian Johnson’s sci-fi thriller “Looper” is now scheduled for production. According to Production Weekly, the project will begin filming in January 2011.
Here’s a brief description of the film from an interview with Johnson by Cinematical.
"Looper is a time travel movie, set in a near future where time travel doesn’t exist but will be invented in a few decades. It’s pretty dark in tone, much different from Bloom, and involves a group of killers (called Loopers) who work for a crime syndicate in the future. Their bosses send their targets hogtied and blindfolded back in time to the Loopers, and their job is to simply shoot them in the head and dispose of the body. So the target vanishes from the future and the Loopers dispose of a corpse that doesn’t technically exist, a very clean system. Complications set in from there. I can’t wait to make it, I’m a big sci-fi fan and it’s going to be a fun world to play in. Fingers crossed."
The film will star Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis. According to SlashFilm, both will be playing Loopers, but from different time periods.
I find the concept interesting. It makes me wonder how the film will be structured. There're also hints that the description or hook is just the tip of what the movie really is about. Plus, Joseph and Bruce are in it. I thought Levitt did well in Inception.
Here’s a brief description of the film from an interview with Johnson by Cinematical.
"Looper is a time travel movie, set in a near future where time travel doesn’t exist but will be invented in a few decades. It’s pretty dark in tone, much different from Bloom, and involves a group of killers (called Loopers) who work for a crime syndicate in the future. Their bosses send their targets hogtied and blindfolded back in time to the Loopers, and their job is to simply shoot them in the head and dispose of the body. So the target vanishes from the future and the Loopers dispose of a corpse that doesn’t technically exist, a very clean system. Complications set in from there. I can’t wait to make it, I’m a big sci-fi fan and it’s going to be a fun world to play in. Fingers crossed."
The film will star Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis. According to SlashFilm, both will be playing Loopers, but from different time periods.
I find the concept interesting. It makes me wonder how the film will be structured. There're also hints that the description or hook is just the tip of what the movie really is about. Plus, Joseph and Bruce are in it. I thought Levitt did well in Inception.