Sunday, September 2, 2012

Looper Upcoming Sci-Fi Action Flick

Looper is an upcoming American science fiction film directed by Rian Johnson with a time travel plot. The film stars Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt. Filming began in Louisiana on January 24, 2011.The film combines strong corporate influences for dealing with criminal organizations, technology for the time-travel machine itself, as well as film noir, due to the film's dark, gritty, and bloody plot. It has been selected to be the opening film of the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.
n a futuristic gangland in the year 2047, a 25-year-old killer named Joseph Simmons (Gordon-Levitt) works for a mafia company in Kansas City as a "Looper." Loopers kill and dispose of agents sent by their employers from corporate headquarters in Shanghai from the year 2077. Loopers are foot soldiers, paid on the terms that all targets must never escape. When Simmons recognizes his target as a future version of himself (Willis), his older self escapes after incapacitating him. The resulting failure of his job causes his employers to come after him, forcing him to fight for his life as he hunts his older self.

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