looper movie rian johnson

Writer/director Rian Johnson has earned a pretty solid cult following over the past few years, thanks to his high school Noir flick Brick and quirky con man movie The Brothers Bloom. He’ll be treading on new territory with Looper, an upcoming sci-fi thriller that reunites Johnson with his Brick leading man (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and aims to throw the time travel genre for (wait…) a loop.

Reviews from an early screening of Looper were pretty enthusiastic; some of the critics in attendance compared Looper to titles like director Duncan Jones’ Moon, in terms of how the former works as both a smart spin on popular sci-fi subject matter – and an overall entertaining film, on its own terms. So, that’s definitely encouraging to hear.

Here is the film’s official synopsis.

LOOPER is a time-travel action thriller that involves a killer (Gordon-Levitt) ...

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