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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #81. Rian Johnson’s Looper
Sci-fi in September? Not sure why Sony isn’t tent-poling the release of Rian Johnson’s third film, which should be brimming with the same creative wit we became accustomed with his first pair of outings. This time travel caboose which sounds like the thinking man’s version of Inception, oddly includes Joseph Gordon-Levitt (returning to the Johnson fold since Brick) and Paul Dano who is going to have one hell of a 2012.
#81. Looper
Director/Writer: Rian Johnson
Producers: Ram Bergman and James D. Stern
Distributor: Tristar Pictures
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, Piper Perabo, Paul Dano and Jeff Daniels
List Worthy Reasons…: Sci-fi in September? Not sure why Sony isn’t tent-poling the release of Rian Johnson’s third film, which should be brimming with the same creative wit we became accustomed with his first pair of outings. This time travel caboose which sounds like the thinking man’s version of Inception, oddly includes Joseph Gordon-Levitt (returning to the Johnson fold since Brick) and Paul Dano who is going to have one hell of a 2012.
Release Date/Status?: September 28th release date was issued. If this remains intact, expect a huge red carpet showing at TIFF just weeks before.
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