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NoirFan 09-17-08 01:13 AM
Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
From slashfilm:
Until now we’ve known very little about Brick director Rian Johnson’s upcoming third film, a sci-fi movie titled Looper. When we talked with Johnson in Toronto (interview coming in December), he described the film as being “really violent and dark” and compared it to the work of Phillip K Dick and the first Terminator film. Now thanks to THR, we have an official logline:

“Looper is set in a present-day world in which a group of hitmen are sent their victims from the future.”

Sounds like a pretty interesting concept, and with Johnson behind the camera, I have no doubt it will be great. Endgame Entertainment hopes to begin principal photography next year.

Update: Johnson assures fans that “there’s much much MUCH much more to Looper than that logline suggests. In fact, that quick description doesn’t even get to the really interesting hook of the plot, and the plot’s hook isn’t what the movie is really about anyway.”

PopcornTreeCt 09-17-08 01:21 AM
Hmm... I'll have to keep an eye out for the screenplay.

printerati 09-17-08 09:18 PM
If the victims are sent from the future, the present-day hitmen didn't do a very good job. ;)

CloverClover 09-17-08 09:36 PM
that is strange that they already are greenlighting this even though his brothers bloom movie isn't even out yet, must be a good script.

riotinmyskull 09-18-08 04:12 AM
Originally Posted by CloverClover (Post 8946348)
that is strange that they already are greenlighting this even though his brothers bloom movie isn't even out yet, must be a good script.

i think the phrase goes something like "you're never hotter than right before your new movie comes out"

RyoHazuki 09-18-08 05:06 PM
Can't wait to bump this thread in two years.

NoirFan 09-18-08 05:36 PM
Originally Posted by RyoHazuki (Post 8948266)
Can't wait to bump this thread in two years.
Not a lot to my initial post I admit, but I figured people would be interested. I suppose I should have just posted the info in the Brothers Bloom thread.

RyoHazuki 09-18-08 05:44 PM
No its all good. I always like to be ahead of people with these things anyways. Make me feel 1337.

PopcornTreeCt 09-18-08 05:45 PM
If anyone has the script...please be so kind to PM me. :)

gryffinmaster 09-18-08 05:49 PM
Yeah, I'll get excited about this after I catch a glimpse at Brothers Bloom to make sure Johnson wasn't a one-hit wonder.

riotinmyskull 05-04-10 03:30 AM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
Joseph Gordon-Levitt confirmed to reteam with BRICK director Rian Johnson for time-travel tale LOOPER!

:thumbsup:

LickTheABCs 05-04-10 03:38 AM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
Awesome!!

Eric D. 05-04-10 03:45 AM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
JGL is finally making it big!

TheySentYou 05-04-10 03:42 PM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
exciting!

even though i didn't care for Brick, i liked Brothers Bloom immensely (probably an opposite to most opinions i'm sure)

Sessa17 05-04-10 04:25 PM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
Two of my favorite modern films already by the guy & one of my favorite actors. No clue what the plot really is yet but I'll be there day one. I think he was already talking about working on this movie on the Brothers Bloom commentary.

Groucho 05-04-10 04:36 PM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
Sounds interesting, I'm there.

Osiris3657 05-04-10 05:24 PM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
Originally Posted by TheySentYou (Post 10140091)
exciting!

even though i didn't care for Brick, i liked Brothers Bloom immensely (probably an opposite to most opinions i'm sure)
wrong, I feel the same. I hated Brick with a passion but really enjoyed The Brothers Bloom. It redeemed Rian Johnson, so I'll give this film a shot.

riotinmyskull 06-24-10 06:36 AM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
old news but i didn't see it mentioned...bruce willis has joined the cast: http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/05/14/...hnsons-looper/

RagingBull80 06-24-10 01:44 PM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
This is off topic but I have a question.

Originally Posted by Eric D. (Post 10138985)
JGL is finally making it big!
Originally Posted by Sessa17 (Post 10140154)
Two of my favorite modern films already by the guy & one of my favorite actors.
What was it that got everyone on a Joseph Gordon-Levitt kick? It seems that he's been getting an enormous amount of praise around these parts lately and it's all seemed to have come relatively recently. I like him and I'm curious because I'd like to see whatever it is.

DoubleDownAgain 06-24-10 01:45 PM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
For me it was when I saw Brick. I also really liked him in The Lookout & (500) Days of Summer.

Solid Snake 06-24-10 01:56 PM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
I think Brick changed our view of JGL. After that he's been pretty good w/ his roles. Granted he was CC in GI JOE but...I mean....he wanted to be in it cuz it was fun. And he was right. At least he knew wtf he was getting into on that one.

MrSmearkase 06-24-10 02:31 PM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
Originally Posted by Solid Snake PAC (Post 10230581)
Granted he was CC in GI JOE but...I mean....he wanted to be in it cuz it was fun. And he was right. At least he knew wtf he was getting into on that one.
Agreed :up: He seemed to be the only one who was having any sort of fun with their role.

Yavin 06-24-10 02:34 PM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
Count me in as interested. But at first glance at the thread title I thought this was a film about the "Lopper" killer from Seinfeld.

Yavin 06-24-10 03:56 PM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
^ I always thought that it was 500 Days of Summer that allowed him to break through.

Sessa17 06-24-10 04:02 PM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
Originally Posted by RagingBull80 (Post 10230550)
What was it that got everyone on a Joseph Gordon-Levitt kick? It seems that he's been getting an enormous amount of praise around these parts lately and it's all seemed to have come relatively recently. I like him and I'm curious because I'd like to see whatever it is.
I first saw him in Mysterious Skin, he just really stood out for me & then Brick just blew me away, there is a lot of hate toward the movie (especially here) but its one of my favorite modern films. Then the Lookout which was another movie I absolutely loved & got very little attention. A couple more solid performances in lesser films then 500 Days of Summer, another polarizing film & aboslutely adore. Only in the past year has he taken two blockbuster movie roles which sadly is the only way most people will ever be exposed to him. I'm hope after Inception he doesn't get overexposed or labelled as the new "it" actor.

Blu Man 06-24-10 04:52 PM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
Sounds like a really interesting idea, lately JGL has really impressed me, so I'm definitely in for this one.

Solid Snake 06-24-10 05:35 PM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
Originally Posted by Yavin (Post 10230823)
^ I always thought that it was 500 Days of Summer that allowed him to break through.
no....it did probably make him more "mainstream" though...

RagingBull80 06-25-10 01:33 AM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
I'll have to watch Brick and (500) Days of Summer; the latter of which I should have seen already due to my love for Zooey Deschanel.

For what little I've seen him in I've always liked Levitt for some reason that I can't exactly put my finger on. I look forward to enjoying him in the aforementioned two flicks and the new Nolan picture (Yay!!!) Inception.

Zen Peckinpah 06-25-10 02:48 PM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
The title keeps making me think of this:

http://www.moviegoods.com//Assets/pr...435.1020.A.jpg

The Bus 06-25-10 07:17 PM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
Originally Posted by Osiris3657 (Post 10140246)
wrong, I feel the same. I hated Brick with a passion but really enjoyed The Brothers Bloom. It redeemed Rian Johnson, so I'll give this film a shot.
Love Brick. Thought Brothers Bloom was a warmed-over Wes Anderson film.

riotinmyskull 07-30-10 08:08 PM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
here's a bit of an interview that quint from AICN did with bruce willis and they talked about LOOPER:

i decided to spoiler it but nothing major is revealed...
Spoiler:
Quint: That’s great. Now I think you might be working with a friend of mine, Rian Johnson, on his flick Looper…
Bruce Willis: Oh cool, yeah I am. I love that script. Love that script.
Quint: I’m very much looking forward to that.
Bruce Willis: That script is in a handful of scripts that I read and said yes to right away. I was like “This is unbelievable.” It’s really smart and the idea that it’s a big idea of time travel and the first page or second page he says, “Yeah, but it’s not that big a deal. They didn’t invent anything after that, so everybody said ‘Fuck it!’ Time travel!”
Quint: And it’s very illegal, that’s all you’ve got to know.
Bruce Willis: It’s just against the law and it’s so cool. I can’t wait.
Quint: And it’s really dark.
Bruce Willis: Really dark.
Quint: I read it after I had heard that you were going to be involved with it and, in terms of the tone, it reminded me a lot of TWELVE MONKEYS, so I can see where they were able to hook you…
Bruce Willis: Yes. That’s a great call, it really is, and hopefully we can shoot it like that. A guy goes back to kill himself, his own younger self? How is that…. I want to go see it right away.
Quint: And I love the whole concept of being able to track the looper by… or to blackmail them essentially into turning themselves in.
Bruce Willis: You know where you are going to be.
Quint: And suddenly fingers start disappearing and all of that stuff, it’s such a crazy…
Bruce Willis: It’s such a huge leap and yet the story is… I love time travel. It’s really smart and yet it’s not about time travel as much as it is about mistakes you have made and things you don’t want to do and your little childhood self coming near your adult life going “No, you’re not going to do that. I’ve got to fucking kill me.” It’s great, so yeah I’m really excited about that.
Quint: He’s a great shooter. I spent some time on BROTHERS BLOOM, just as a guest on the set watching him work. He is so into it, but he is also so composed and he has everything ready.
Bruce Willis: Oh good. There is a lot that has to be gotten ready for that story, but I can’t wait. I’m really excited about it.

Dr Mabuse 07-31-10 06:56 AM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
So it's two years later and they are just now casting this thing? That right?

Sounds great, I'm definitely interested.

riotinmyskull 12-02-10 06:04 AM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
Originally Posted by slashfilm
Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine, There Will Be Blood, Cowboys & Aliens) is in talks to join Brick director Rian Johnson‘s sci-fi thriller Looper, reports Variety. Dano will join Joseph Gordon Levitt (500 Days of Summer, Inception), Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada, The Wolfman).

Looper is set in the near future. Time travel doesn’t exist yet, but it will be invented a few decades in the future. It follows a group of killers (called Loopers) who work for a crime syndicate in the future, who send bodies back in time for them to kill and dispose of. This is basically the ultimate way of erasing the evidence, as law enforcement can’t track the bodies once they disappear from the current timeline. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a looper in the past, who goes on the run after “complications occur.”

Blunt plays the female lead, a character named Sara who discovers Joe hiding out in her barn. No word on which character Dano will play, although I’d assume it’s either Joe’s friend/co-worker Seth or a young thug named Kid Blue. Bruce Willis plays a looper from the future who, well, I’m not going to ruin it for you.

I must admit, I’ve read an earlier draft of Johnson’s Looper, and all I can say is that we’re all in for a treat. This is the type of movie that plays with the genre conventions in a fun and clever way, without ever making it too complex or confusing to understand. Johnson has described it as being “pretty dark in tone,” and I would agree. Definitely more on the tonal scale of Brick over Brothers Bloom.

Last we heard, the project will begin filming in early 2011 (possibly January). Optimistically, this means the film could be ready in time for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival (Rian premiered Brick at the fest and Levitt is a fest favorite) or maybe even the Cannes Film Festival later that year.
rian johnson's tumblr: http://loopermovie.tumblr.com/

calhoun07 12-02-10 03:49 PM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
I can't take any movie seriously when it's called Looper. All I think of when I read that title is Big Bird on Sesame Street constantly pronouncing Mr. Hooper's name wrong only to be chastised by everybody else.

The Bus 12-04-10 05:28 PM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
Argh. Two years wait. :(

riotinmyskull 01-18-11 04:51 AM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
Originally Posted by slashfilm.com
http://i54.tinypic.com/332t5s1.jpg

If you’re a fan of Shane Carruth‘s one and only and wonderful movie Primer, this photo should put a spring in your step. If you’ve never seen Primer, I suggest checking it out, then looping back here to this post to begin again.

So this is Shane Carruth, aka the writer, director and star of Primer, on the set of Rian Johnson‘s new film Looper. It’s one of the very few images of the director we’ve seen in some time. In September 2009, Rian Johnson said, “Shane is alive and well and has a mind-blowing sci-fi script. Let’s all pray to the movie-gods that he gets it made soon.” That script is A Topiary, for which a teaser website went up last year, but funding is reportedly thin.

Now Shane Carruth is working on Looper, and Badass Digest got confirmation that he’s doing “some effects for the time travel sequences.” Given that Primer is one of the best time travel films ever made, with some great home-made effects, and Looper is a promising time-travel movie from the talented Rian Johnson, it seems that things are coming together nicely. Now let’s get A Topiary funded. Please.

Dragon Tattoo 01-18-11 05:09 AM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
Funny, because when I saw the synopsis on the first page, I immediately thought "Primer". Crazy that he's actually on this now.

Of course, I think I'll be doomed to always think of Primer when thinking of time-travel movies from now on.

georgec 01-18-11 05:37 PM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
I remember Rian Johnson saying some time last year that Shane Carruth had his own mind-blowing sci-fi script he was shopping around. Someone on IMDB claims to have read it and posted tons of info, but I haven't spoiled myself.

Deadman31 01-18-11 05:50 PM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
Wait a minute, wait a minute. Who is the Lopper?

Oh, it's no big deal. It's just some guy who's been running around Riverside park-pffff. You know, cutting people's heads off.

riotinmyskull 01-22-11 05:38 AM
Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 
Originally Posted by slashfilm.com
Around these parts, Rian Johnson‘s third feature film Looper is one of the most anticipated films of 2011/2012. The sci-fi / time-travel thriller is ready to roll cameras, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano and Xu Qing leading the cast in a story about “a group of killers who send bodies of their victims back in time, with China as the centerpiece of the storyline.”

Now Jeff Daniels, Piper Perabo and Noah Segan have signed on as well.
Fans of Rian Johnson’s previous two films, Brick and The Brothers Bloom, will be familiar with Noah Segan, as he played Dode in the former and had a small part as The Duke in the latter. I’d expect that Jeff Daniels and Piper Perabo need no introduction.


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