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What Happened to Looper (2012)?
Posted 2 years ago
We take a deep dive into Rian Johnson's time-travel classic, Looper, which marks a highlight in Bruce Willis's later filmography.
Looper
- Theatrical - Wide 2012-09-28
- Cast Joseph Gordon-Levitt Bruce Willis Emily Blunt Paul Dano Noah Segan Jeff Daniels Piper Perabo Xu Qing
- Directed by Rian Johnson
- Written by Rian Johnson
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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... See more 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.
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