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Watch: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Can't Kill Himself In Full Trailer For Rian Johnson's 'Looper'

By Kevin Jagernauth
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April 12, 2012 7:18 PM
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Prosthetics, time-jumping, sci-fi, action...writer/director Rian Johnson certainly has a more than few balls in the air with "Looper" and after some tedious teasers for the trailer the whole magilla has finally be unveiled.

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Watch: Teaser Footage For 'Looper' Plus New Look At Joseph Gordon-Levitt In The Film

By Kevin Jagernauth
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April 9, 2012 1:15 PM
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Well, "Looper" is on the way but before we actually see the teaser trailer on Thursday, we will have to endure three days the latest hot marketing trend: teasers for the trailers. Yeah, we know...

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First Look At Prosthetics-Heavy Joseph Gordon-Levitt In 'Looper'

By The Playlist
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March 18, 2012 7:44 AM
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Some will say he looks beefed-up, but the fact of the matter is Joseph Gordon-Levitt is under quite a bit of practical prosthetics to make him look more like Bruce Willis. Wait, what? Well, backing up a second, this is your first look at Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Rian Johnson's ("Brick," "The Brothers Bloom") much-anticipated sci-fi film, "Looper." In the high-concept picture that plays around with screwy time-travel conceits, Gordon-Levitt plays a hitman from the future who works for the mob and recognizes one of his targets as his future self.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Wearing Practical Prosthetics To Look Like Bruce Willis In 'Looper'

By Kevin Jagernauth
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January 17, 2012 11:44 AM
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If anything, Rian Johnson is no stranger to ambition. For his debut feature he put hard boiled noir dialogue in the mouths of teenagers in "Brick" and he followed that up with the Euro-flavored heist tale, "The Brothers Bloom." And in 2012, the director returns with "Looper" a time traveling sci-fi tale that, as usual, is so much more than the premise indicates.

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Rian Johnson Shows Off His 'Looper' Time Machine To Ring In The New Year

By Oliver Lyttelton
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January 3, 2012 10:21 AM
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The benefit of having a time machine? You don't have to wait nine months to see Rian Johnson's "Looper." The third film from the director of "Brick" and "The Brothers Bloom" is a tough, twisty sci-fi noir (the script is one of our favorites of the last few years) and the director has assembled a hugely exciting cast, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Jeff Daniels and more starring in the picture. But with the film wrapping early last year, and not set for release until September, the wait is becoming something close to interminable, particularly after ecstatic word leaked out of early screenings.

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FilmDistrict Team With TriStar To Pick Up Rian Johnson's Time Travel Actioner 'Looper'

By Oliver Lyttelton
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May 15, 2011 1:00 AM
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Jumping in as a new distributor into a circuit where the big dogs -- the Paramounts, the 20th Century Foxs, the Warner Bros.s, the Universals -- have been up and running for the best part of a century, can't be easy. The most recent start-ups, Summit and CBS Films, have had mixed success, the former might have a mega-franchise in the "Twilight" series, but are still finding their feet outside it, while the latter are yet to have a box office hit in their first year of operation. But FilmDistrict, the shiniest, newest company in town, have managed to come out of the blocks in a fairly impressive way.

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First Look At Bruce Willis In Rian Johnson's 'Looper'

By Catherine Scott
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May 13, 2011 2:45 AM
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Rian Johnson, director of "The Brothers Bloom" and "Brick," has amassed quite a cast for his next sci-fi outing "Looper."

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Jeff Daniels, Piper Perabo & Noah Segan Join Rian Johnson's 'Looper'

By Kevin Jagernauth
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January 21, 2011 2:01 AM
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With filming set to kick off next week, the final pieces of the casting puzzle are being put into place for Rian Johnson's ambitious sci-fi flick "Looper."

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Chinese Actress Xu Qing Joins Rian Johnson's Sci-Fi Actioner 'Looper'

By Simon Dang
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January 19, 2011 1:59 AM
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Script Rewritten To Cater For Newly-Announced Chinese Co-ProductionChinese actress Xu Qing has joined the cast of Rian Johnson's upcoming sci-fi actioner "Looper" with lensing set to begin next week in New Orleans and an exciting cast boasting Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Paul Dano and Emily Blunt.

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'Primer' Director Shane Carruth Doing Effects Work On Rian Johnson's Sci-Fi Thriller 'Looper'

By Oliver Lyttelton
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January 18, 2011 2:01 AM
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We're feeling optimistic about 2011, for a number of reasons. One of the principle reasons is that filming is now underway in Louisiana on "Looper," the long-awaited third film from Rian Johnson. Johnson made one of the great debut films of the Noughties with "Brick," and his follow-up, "The Brothers Bloom," while more divisive, is, in the view of this writer, a charming, inventive con-man piece, and continued to demonstrate, along with some sterling recent TV work on "Terriers" and "Breaking Bad," that Johnson was potentially one of the most exciting filmmakers of his generation.

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