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Trailer: Rian Johnson's Time Travel Movie 'Looper'

By Peter Sciretta

Over the past week, Sony has released teaser vignette pieces for Looper, featuring Joseph Gordon Levitt and filmmaker Rian Johnson talking about the film, cut to behind the scenes footage and a few glimpses of the trailer.

  • The first focused on the premise
  • The second looked at the feel of the future world of the film
  • The third takes a look at the transformation Joseph Gordon Levitt went through to look like a young Bruce Willis.

    • These vignettes all lead to the teaser trailer, which just launched. Watch it now embedded after the jump. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below.

    Here is the Looper teaser trailer which premiered on Apple

    Official Synopsis:

    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 send their target 30 years 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. the film is written and directed by Rian Johnson and also stars Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, and Jeff Daniels. Ram Bergman and James D. Stern produce.

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