#64. Looper
Director/Writer: Rian Johnson
Producers: Ram Bergman and James D. Stern
Distributor: Rights Available.
The Gist: A time travel thriller, 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 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.….(more)
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt and Paul Dano
List Worthy Reasons…: Time travel films are more often than not a sub-genre that hardly work…but this might just be this or next year’s Inception for art-house patrons. Re-teaming with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and casting a strong threesome in Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt and Paul Dano, what I like best about Johnson (and it’s obvious in a filmography that only consists of a high school film noir debut and caper comedy) is the convergence of unique storytelling and an obvious passion for the 7th art, sort of like what we find among filmmakers such as Guillermo del Toro.
Release Date/Status?: While production begins this month and this isn’t your small budget indie production, I have a feeling that we’ll be featuring the film in this same most anticipated list next year…it’s a long-shot, but knowing Johnson’s work ethic, this could be bought well before this year’s AFM and set for a theatrical release – it depends on who the suitor is.
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