The nominations for the 2013 Writers Guild Awards have been announced, with Looper, The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Master getting bumps in their Oscar chances.
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From the Sundance-favorite Brick in 2005, to his delightful sophomore effort The Brothers Bloom, and even a few episodes of Breaking Bad, Rian Johnson has had an impressive debut as a director. This in no way changes with Looper, a high-concept, highly-entertaining and thought-provoking time travel action film that turns out to be one of the year’s best. We recently sat down with Johnson to discuss Looper, his influences, time travel, and much more.
For anyone even half paying attention to film over the past few years, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is no doubt a name you’ve heard a lot. From (500) Days of Summer and 50/50 to The Dark Knight Rises and Inception, Gordon-Levitt has established himself among the brightest rising stars in Hollywood.
Time travel has always been a popular device in science fiction storytelling and the new thriller Looper uses it to great effect. It lays out a future society in the year 2074 where bridging the gap between the past and present is possible but also highly illegal. Writer-director Rian Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom) balances heavy ideas in his most accomplished feature to date but also manages to be complex without being alienating, the toughest nut to crack in time travel stories.