We’ve got more sci-fi goodness to share on this fine WonderCon Saturday. Director Rian Johnson premiered the trailer for his new sci-fi film Looper at the film’s panel earlier today, and while the rest of us will have to wait a little while to get a peek at the film in motion, a couple new images have gone online to tide us over. The futuristic thriller takes place in a world where time travel exists, but is only used on the Black Market. When the mob wants to kill someone, they send the target 30 years into the past where a contract killer (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) does the dirty work. Things are going smoothly until Gordon-Levitt’s future self (Bruce Willis) is sent into the past to be killed. These images show off the subtle makeup used to make Gordon-Levitt resemble Willis, and I’m very impressed. Johnson’s previous films—the noir drama Brick and the quirky con man story The Brothers Bloom—are splendid, and I can’t wait to see him take on the sci-fi genre.
Hit the jump to check out the images, and be sure to look for our full write-up from the film’s panel later tonight or tomorrow. The film also stars Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, and Jeff Daniels. Looper opens on September 28th.
Here’s the synopsis for Looper:
In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented – but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a “looper” – a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good… until the day the mob decides to “close the loop,” sending back Joe’s future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination. The film is written and directed by Rian Johnson and also stars Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, and Jeff Daniels. Ram Bergman and James D. Stern produce.
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Subtle? That’s pretty drastic and horrendous make up in my opinion. I don’t get why they just didn’t rely on the audience’s suspension of disbelief. I can buy Gordon-Levitt as a young Bruce Willis. Why? Because its a movie.
I think he looks excellent!
Doesn’t look that bad imo. Did a good job making him look similar to Willis, and I think if you didn’t know what JGL looked like to begin with you might not know he was wearing makeup.
Wow. JGL looks like a legitimate badass. Never thought that was possible. Awesome!
You act like you’ve never watched Inception!
I wonder why they send ppl back in time to kill them? Can they not kill them in their own time without the need to go to the hassle of time travel??
Good point. It may have something to do with erasing that person’s entire influence on the present, be it with corporation or family, etc… I’m always interested in seeing how stories can pull off time travel aspects, with A Sound of Thunder and it’s so called butterfly effect being sometimes confounding explanations.
Have you never seen any mobster movies? if they could send dead bodies into space w out getting caught, i’m sure they would.
sending them back in time is brilliant. no body, no evidence. how would anyone be able to investigate the crime?
How? By going back in time themselves to find out perhaps? Also, if the target is sent back in time, he could kill the mobsters in the past too, erasing them from their future as well. Much too risky and dangerous, really. Not to mention the target could influence the future in other ways through knowing how the future unfolds like Biff Tannen in Back to the Future 2. A lot of holes here, wondering how they explain this stuff way but I have a feeling they just ignore it and focus on the coolness aspect of time travel because they can.