A representative for Emily Blunt has confirmed to TheWrap that the actress will star alongside Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon Levitt in upcoming time-travel yarn Looper, after Blunt’s name was dropped in a Production Weekly tweet.
The film revolves around a group of killers who send their victim’s bodies back in time to cover up their crimes. In the film, the screenplay for which was described by director Rian Johnson as “really violent and dark”, Blunt’s single mother must protect her son after he is put in harm’s way.
Looper will be fully financed by Endgame Entertainment, with the studio’s James D. Stern and Doug Hansen producing alongside Brick’s Ram Bergman. Production on the project is expected to begin in Louisiana this coming January.
Blunt, who was last seen whimpering in Wolfman and as con-artist Rose in Jonathan Lynn’s Wild Target, will next star opposite Jack Black in December’s Gulliver’s Travels.
