Rian Johnson has revealed the plot to his new movie Looper.
Johnson is back in the director's chair this summer with The Brothers Bloom but is already looking forward to his next project.
Speaking to Cinematical the filmmaker said: "Looper is a time travel movie, set in a near future where time travel doesn’t exist but will be invented in a few decades.
"It’s pretty dark in tone, much different from Bloom, and involves a group of killers (called Loopers) who work for a crime syndicate in the future.
"Their bosses send their targets hogtied and blindfolded back in time to the Loopers, and their job is to simply shoot them in the head and dispose of the body.
"So the target vanishes from the future and the Loopers dispose of a corpse that doesn’t technically exist, a very clean system. Complications set in from there."
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is rumoured to be in talks to appear in the movie which would reunite him with the Brick filmmaker.
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