Looper

[Hunter Rider]

http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/896/896994p1.html

Johnson's Loop-y Film
The Brick director says a sci-fi story is next for him.
by Todd Gilchrist


US, August 6, 2008 - Rian Johnson, writer-director of the upcoming The Brothers Bloom, has informed IGN that his next project will be a science fiction film.

"It's called Looper," Johnson said during a recent visit to the edit bay for The Brothers Bloom. "It's sci-fi, but it's very much -- well, I think people toss out Philip Dick sci-fi when they mean 'small, dark' sci-fi. Although, when I think of Philip Dick's books, it's something very different. I think people are confusing it with the movie Blade Runner."

Johnson, who previously wrote and directed the high school-film noir hybrid Brick, explained that the film would be set in a sci-fi reality, but deal more with characters than fantastical conceits. "To me, it's a lot more like the first Terminator," he said. "It's very sci-fi, but it's very character-based and very concentrated. It's very different from the Terminator movies, but it's like the first Terminator in that time travel is involved with it, but only as a plot device.

Comparing it to The Brothers Bloom, he added, "It's going to be really different than this. It's really violent and dark."

 

[Gotham]

I'm very excited for The Brothers Bloom, so I can't wait to hear more about this.

 

[Dark Donnie]

Rian Johnson's Future Includes Looper
Source: The Hollywood Reporter September 17, 2008


The Brothers Bloom writer/director Rian Johnson has set a new project, a time-travel thriller titled Looper that again will see the filmmaker seek to reinvent a familiar genre.

The project will team Johnson with producer Ram Bergman, who produced Johnson's previous two films, with the pair eyeing a 2009 start date. Johnson again will direct from his own script.

Looper is set in a present-day world in which a group of hitmen are sent their victims from the future.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=48958

 

[Hunter Rider]

IFFBoston: A Few More Details About Looper, Rian Johnson’s Next Sci-Fi Film


Sounds cool.

 

[GhostPoet]

Why is it people think that something can only be good if it's dark and violent? sigh...

 

[Rac]

Happy and unviolent Terminator movie wouldn't work...

EDIT: Aw, what the hell. I thought I was posting the in the T4 thread...

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/05/03...ohnsons-looper-and-david-koepps-premium-rush/

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Possibly reuniting with Brick director Rian Johnson for his third film, a sci-fi thriller titled Looper.


Johnson has described Looper as being “really violent and dark”, frequently comparing it to the work of Phillip K Dick and the first Terminator film. Heatvision has the news and the film’s official log-line:

“Looper is during a future in which time travel has been invented, with operatives sent back to the present to assassinate criminals.”

Gordon-Levitt will play a man sent back in time to kill himself.



Update: On Twitter, Johnson has commented that the logline is inaccurate,

“basically the exact opposite of what they wrote: hit men are sent their victims from crime orgs in the future.”

ThePlaylist has a bit more about the story:​

He’s previously described the picture as set in a very bad in an industrial town in Kansas. The worst crime you can commit 30 years from now is messing with time travel, so the only people who will mess with it are big criminal groups. It’s a weird mixture; it has elements of the first ‘Terminator’ and ‘Witness,’ bizarrely enough.”

 

[AlteredEgo]

Seriously? JGL reuniting with Rian Johnson? Squee!

 

[Octoberist]

Bruce Willis has joined Rian Johnson's Looper with Joseph Gordon Levitt

I’ve always said that Joseph Gordon-Levitt looks like a young Bruce Willis (and by “always” I mean “right now and never once before”). Deadline reports that Willis has joined Gordon-Levitt in Rian Johnson’s upcoming sci-fi flick Looper. For those who don’t know, Looper is about hitmen in the near-future who kill people that are sent back in time from the distant-future so that the target can’t inconvenience the distant-future person who put out the contract. Slightly confusing, but kind of brilliant. The film is being getting crazy interest from buyers, but it isn’t being shopped around at Cannes.


Willis and Gordon-Levitt will play the same character but with Gordon-Levitt as the man in the near-future and with Willis as that character’s older self. I suppose someone should let Gordon-Levitt know that he’s going to go bald and that he really shouldn’t make another Die Hard movie.

http://www.collider.com/2010/05/14/looper-bruce-willis-joseph-gordon-levitt-rian-johnson/

 

[Hunter Rider]

Ohhh this is shaping up nicely!

 

[dude stannis]

This movie just went up 1,000 spaces on my must see list. Hopefully Willis and Levitt get to have scenes together, I think they'd play off each other very well.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://veryaware.com/2010/08/rian-johnsons-looper-starts-shooting-january-2011/


Rian Johnson’s Looper Starts Shooting January 2011

Written by Javi News Aug 12, 2010

Rian Johnson is a director that I have tons of unanimous love for. His debut Brick was a surprisingly well made affair, effectively translating film noir tropes to a grim high school environment. Brothers Bloom also took the caper movie format, where the protagonists go for “one last job” and everything goes to hell, and made it feel refreshing. So now, Production Weekly’s Twitter account reports that his third effort Looper will begin shooting next January.

Looper will reunite the director with his first star Joseph Gordon Levitt, and will also star Bruce Willis. The premise is that time travel exists in the future, but it is outlawed. An evil corporation (is there any other kind?) hires Loopers who send back people back in time so they can be killed in the past, thus erasing any evidence in the future of the murder. Gordon Levitt will play a Looper from the past while Willis will be a Looper from the future. I can’t wait to finally see this movie when it is completed, and I’m really hoping that this movie breaks him into the mainstream.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Emily Blunt Joins Rian Johnson’s Looper

 

[Figs]

Damn, this is the first i've heard of this film. Nice cast so far.

I've only seen Brick, how was The Brother's Bloom?

 

[Franklin Richards]

Whenever I see this title I think of the Dali Lhama.


Gunga... gunga galunga.


So I got that goin' for me. Which is nice.

 

[Octoberist]

I can see Joseph Gordon Levitt looking like Chris Cooper when he gets old.

 

[Heisenberg]

First shot.

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=30980

 

[Paroxysm]

Nice gun!

 

[Asgard]

An evil corporation (is there any other kind?) hires Loopers who send back people back in time so they can be killed in the past, thus erasing any evidence in the future of the murder.

So, to kill people without leaving any evidence except for maybe a missing persons report, this corporation sends their target unwittingly into the past and then sends a 'looper' into the same timeline to kill their target.

Seems unecessarily complicated, lol.

Sign me up.

 

[dude stannis]

First shot.

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=30980

Hmmm, do I want to see this movie now?

 

[Hunter Rider]

Always love a bit of badass Brucie! t:

 

[Ultra Lantern]

I'll defanately see this movie.

 

[dude stannis]

Always love a bit of badass Brucie! t:

The synopsis makes it sound like he's the villain. Which I think is a welcome diversion from the usual!

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=77561

Sony May Distribute Rian Johnson's Looper

Source: Deadline
May 14, 2011

Deals are taking place at a frenetic pace at Cannes this week, and one of the latest movies that may have been picked up for distribution is Rian (Brick) Johnson's third feature film Looper starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt and Bruce Willis, with the prolific FilmDistrict in final negotiations to distribute through Sony's Tristar label, says Deadline.

Johnson's film is about a futuristic mob contract killer, played by Gordon-Levitt, who sends his victims back 30 years in time after killing them to hide the evidence. That's all going fine until he realizes one of his victims (Willis) is actually an older version of himself. The movie also stars Piper Perabo, Paul Dano and Jeff Daniels.

If the deal goes through, this will be Sony's second purchase at Cannes this week following the Meryl Streep-Steve Carell drama Great Hope Springs, directed by David Frankel, and FilmDistrict's third deal.

You can read the rest of Mike Fleming's full analysis of the sale and the general Cannes buying market over at Deadline.

 

[Hunter Rider]

The synopsis makes it sound like he's the villain. Which I think is a welcome diversion from the usual!

Agreed, It will be interesting to see Bruce tackle this type of film from the opposite prospective.