Rian Johnson’s ambitious sci-fi thriller, Looper, is slated to begin production next January, The Playlist are reporting.
Looper will re-unite Johnson with his Brick lead, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, while Bruce Willis will also be involved.
A brief synopsis of the film is detailed below:
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.
It’s an interesting concept and, with the talents of Willis and Levitt, combined with Johnson’s ambitious vision, it’s one that definitely has the potential to be mind-bending, contentious, controversial and very, very dark.
