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'Looper' Star Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks About Playing Young Bruce Willis In The Time Travel Thriller

Posted 5/3/11 2:04 pm EST by in Interviews, News, Video


Joseph Gordon-Levitt is one of those actors who is becoming more and more appealing as time goes by. I'm not talking his looks - which, of course, are adorable, but more importantly his top notch career choices.

MTV News caught up with JGL this week to talk about his upcoming dramedy "Hesher," and we had to sneak in a few questions about his next project with "Brick" director Rian Johnson: "Looper," the time-travel thriller co-starring Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt

"[I'm] really really excited about 'Looper,'" Gordon-Levitt said. "I’ve never done anything at all like it, and I can’t wait for people to see it. It’s a sci-fi movie, it’s a time travel story, I get to act with Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt, and it’s really good."

Speaking to his experience was working with Willis - both JGL and our "Die Hard" hero play the same man in different time periods - Gordon-Levitt lit up like a Christmas tree.

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Emily Blunt Talks Time-Travel Flick 'Looper,' Co-Starring Bruce Willis And Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Posted 12/21/10 11:18 am EST by in Interviews, News, Video


Emily Blunt has played a lot of wildly different parts in her career -- a cutthroat magazine assistant in "The Devil Wears Prada," a crime-scene spiffer-upper in "Sunshine Cleaning," the queen of England in "The Young Victoria" and now, in "Gulliver's Travels" (in theaters December 25), the thimble-sized princess of Liliput. But she's never before -- to our knowledge at least-- played an ax-wielding, time-traveling, futuristic farm girl.

As the sassy actress told MTV News at the press junket for "Gulliver's Travels," she'll do exactly that in the upcoming sci-fi time-travel thriller "Looper." Written and directed by visionary "Brick" filmmaker Rian Johnson, "Looper" also stars Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, with both actors playing the same man in different time periods.

"It's sort of post-apocalypto time travel, time-traveling world where it's a dog-eat-dog world," Blunt said of the film. "And it's set in sort of 2050 or 2060, that sort of time, when the world has gone to s***." Read More...

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J.J. Abrams' Mystery Trailer And A 'Nightmare On Elm Street' Sequel In Today's Dailies -- 5/4/10

Posted 5/4/10 4:11 pm EST by in Dailies


A Nightmare on Elm Street-- Freddy's back for a "Nightmare on Elm Street" sequel, possibly in 3-D, as Warner distribution president Dan Fellman says: "We don't have a story yet, but this is the largest horror opening in the April-May corridor, and it just proves there's a lot left in the franchise." [The Wrap]

-- Rumors are circulating that a trailer for a J.J. Abrams project called "Super 8," which may or may not be a sequel to "Cloverfield," will premiere in front of "Iron Man 2." Who knows if there's any truth to the rumor, though director Matt Reeves recently acknowledged "spikes in activity" regarding the project. [HitFix]

-- Michael Keaton loves talking about playing Ken in "Toy Story 3," and we love hearing him talk about it. "Ken actually serves as kind of a concierge — somewhere between a tour guide, a concierge, maitre d' and ambassador," he says. "He's not only alone in his dream house but probably alone in the dream." Glorious. [Hero Complex] Read More...

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The Dailies: September 17, 2008

Posted 9/17/08 7:02 pm EST by in Dailies


Nicole Kidman in 'Invasion'- Nicole Kidman to star in “The Eighth Wonder,” an Indiana Jones-esque adventure about an archeological discovery. (THR)

- Jason Statham looking to do film in the vein of “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” with David and Janet Peoples. (Empire)

- Bruce Willis to star in and direct “Three Stories About Joan,” with Owen Wilson and Kieran Culkin. (CHUD)

- David Boreanaz NOT up for the role of “Green Lantern,” which gets a very positive script review. Beware spoilers. (Latino Review)

- Details on Rian Johnson’s sci-fi project “Looper” begin to surface. (Slashfilm)

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