The Looper Comic-Con Recap

He might not have been a Hall H veteran such as Len Wiseman or Paul WS Anderson, but Rian Johnson had a few secret weapons up his sleeve when he arrived in San Diego to premiere some new footage from Looper. The footage was one big draw, and he also brought Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily Blunt to charm the crowd.

The Looper footage was a slickly edited montage culled from footage already available in the trailers and some new material, including an extended look at Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s diner confrontation as the two sides of the “Looper”, Joe.

Johnson’s film, which takes place in the near future, follows Joe, who works for an organized crime ring that exists even further into the space-time continuum. There, time travel was invented, but outlawed, and the mob uses it to send victims back to be dealt with in the most untraceable way possible. But then, as Gordon-Levitt explains in the footage, his bosses decided to close his loop, and send his older self (Willis) back in time to be offed. Suffice to say, it doesn’t end up being that simple…

A mixture of some of the big action set pieces and great dramatic moments from the likes of Willis, JGL, Emily Blunt and Jeff Daniels.
After the footage screening, Johnson, Blunt and Gordon-Levitt worked the crowd, taking fan questions, revealing JGL’s dodgy British accent and talking about how the director views the time travel aspect much in the way James Cameron did in The Terminator – a way to get the characters together, but not the crux of the story.

Please Leave A Comment-
Source-Empire