One rule: “Never let your target escape … even if the target is you,” he says.
Enter Bruce Willis as “Older Joe,” who materializes in the desert to meet his executioner: himself, 30 years earlier. Thug-on-thug violence ensues as car chases, a shotgun-wielding Emily Blunt and futuristic urban sprawl share screen time with the lead killers.
Looper reunites Gordon-Levitt (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises) with writer-director Rian Johnson, who cast the former child star in his stylish 2005 teen thriller Brick.
When Looper footage first unspooled last month at WonderCon, Johnson boiled the concept down to its existential essence: “It’s about what would happen if your younger self could sit down across the table from your older self,” he told Wired.com. “There is no way that time travel will ever make sense.”
In the trailer, Johnson voices a similar sentiment through Jeff Daniels’ grizzled character, who caps the action-oriented antics by grumbling, “This time-travel crap can fry your brain like an egg.”
Looper opens Sept. 28.
