Production Weekly is reporting that Brick and The Brothers Bloom director Rian Johnson’s next project, the sci-fi time travel Looper will start shooting in January. This is nice confirmation after The Brothers Bloom was well-received (one of my favorites of last year), but financially disappointing. It was unsure if Johnson could secure financing quickly, but with a premise as original as this, especially after the success of Inception, I’m sure it was a bit easier.
Looper stars Bruce Willis (The Expendables, Die Hard) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500 Days of Summer, Inception) in a story about “hitmen whose victims are sent back in time from the future to be executed. The Loopers bump them off in the present, so there is no trace of a crime in the future.”
Willis recently said it was “really dark” and compared it to 12 Monkeys. Are you hyped yet?
Are you a fan of Johnson’s previous films? What do you think about this one?