'Looper' Director Talks About JGL Becoming Bruce Willis & Time Travel

One movie on everyone's 2012 list of movies to anticipate is the sci-fi, time traveling thriller Looper from Rian Johnson.  Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis star in this tale of an elite hitman, "working for the mob of the future, who recognizes one of his targets is his future self."  Talk about an innovative new form of suicide!

In an interview with the L.A. Times, Johnson reveals some interesting details about this upcoming film (September 28, 2012), including the use of prosthetics by JGL to make him appear more similar to the action star Willis.  Johnson is also counting on JGL's acting chops to bring out more Willis-esque mannerisms.  

"The biggest thing is Joe's performance," Johnson said.  "He's really doing Bruce in a big and daring way, but he strikes a balance between obviously imitating Bruce and also building this organic performance."

JGL can definitely handle portraying a John McClane or Bruce Willis.  That shouldn't be the challenge of Looper.  I'm more concerned about how the concept of time travel will come across in the film.  Will we believe it?  

Johnson touched on that subject as well.

"If you just tell somebody the plot, you're inevitably telling them the time travel stuff, but the movie actually uses that as a set-up,” he explains.  "The best parallel I can draw is to the first Terminator movie where time travel is used to set up this impossible situation between these people and then that situation plays itself out."

Well, consider me convinced until I see the finished product on September 28.  It should also be noted that the lovely Emily Blunt co-stars in this potentially super cool movie that's guaranteed to be action-packed.