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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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Bruce Willis Joins Joseph Gordon-Levitt In Sci-Fi Flick 'Looper'

Posted 5/17/10 12:11 pm EST by in News


Writer/director Rian Johnson made his debut in 2005 with the gorgeous Joseph Gordon-Levitt-starring high school-set neo-noir "Brick." The duo are reuniting again for some time traveling science fiction in "Looper," which last week added one more to the cast: Bruce Willis. The story follows the titular Loopers, hit men from the future who send their marks back in time to ensure that there's no evidence of the murder. Gordon-Levitt and Willis will play the same character, only in different time periods. Yes, my head suddenly hurts too. Check out the full story at Deadline.

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The Original Freddy Has A New Nightmare, James Gandolfini Returns To HBO Sans 'Sopranos' In Today's Dailies -- 5/6/10

Posted 5/6/10 4:30 pm EST by in Dailies


Robert Englund -- Robert Englund doesn't need Freddy Krueger. He's got an all-new demonic franchise to call his own in the form of "Inkubus," an independent horror movie about a demon that walks into a police station and confesses to several crimes, all while holding a severed head. Perfect. [Variety]

-- James Gandolfini is on his way back to HBO, but he won't be returning to his mafia roots. Instead, he'll produce and possibly star in single-camera comedy series "Taxi-22" based on a French Canadian comedy about an inappropriate cab driver. [Deadline]

-- Elizabeth Perkins is no longer rocking the ganja, as the "Weeds" actress is leaving the Showtime series in favor of a big screen role in "I Hop," a live-action/CG-animated hybrid comedy. [The Hollywood Reporter] 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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Kurt Loder Reviews Director Rian Johnson's 'The Brothers Bloom'

Posted 5/22/09 11:30 am EST by in Reviews


'The Brothers Bloom'FROM MTV.COM: "The Brothers Bloom" is set on a planet somewhat like our own, but far wackier. The Bloom brothers of the title — Stephen (Mark Ruffalo) and, well, Bloom (Adrien Brody) — have been gifted swindlers since they were kids. (They appear to have been born wearing shifty little black suits and ties.) Stephen is the brains of the team — he composes their elaborate schemes as if they were short stories, each one a chapter in an ongoing, lifelong compendium of cons. His younger brother Bloom is always the protagonist. As we join them in the middle of their latest scam, in Berlin, Bloom is chafing under the dictates of his brother's never-ending narrative. "I've only lived life through these roles that aren't me," he complains. He wants to break free, to live "an unwritten life." Not quite yet, Stephen says.

The boys relocate to New Jersey to case a new job. They're accompanied by their assistant, a mysterious young Japanese woman called Bang Bang (Rinko Kikuchi, the troubled teen in "Babel"). Bang Bang's face is a mask of deadpan disgruntlement — she seems to have been waiting all her life for a punch line that's never arrived. She only speaks three words of English; one of them is "Campari." Still, she's "an artist with nitroglycerin," and thus handy to have around.

Continue reading 'The Brothers Bloom': Liars In Love, By Kurt Loder

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Meet 'The Brothers Bloom' Director Rian Johnson Tonight At The SoHo Apple Store In New York City

Posted 5/12/09 11:00 am EST by in Interviews


Rian JohnsonDirector SoHo Apple Store in New York City. Johnson is here to pimp his sophomore effort, "The Brothers Bloom," which goes into wide release on May 29 and 'select cities' release a week earlier, on May 22. Filmgoers in New York and Los Angeles will get first crack however, with limited engagements in both cities starting on May 15.

"The Brothers Bloom" stars Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo as a pair high-class con artists who have built a small business out of hoodwinking millionaires. Along with accomplice Bang-Bang (Rinko Kikuchi), the Brothers settle their sights on eccentric heiress Penelope Stamp (Rachel Weisz). Of course, the seemingly straightforward con turns into a disaster when Brody's Bloom brother falls for the mark.

Sounds a little like "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" to me, but Johnson's neo-noir debut "Brick" is anything but by-the-numbers. Early buzz on "Brothers" has been pretty positive so far, and tonight will offer New Yorkers a good opportunity to hear about it from the director's mouth in advance of the film's limited release on Friday.

If you want to check out the interview, make your way to the SoHo Apple Store, located at 103 Prince St (corner of Prince & Greene), by 7pm. Seating will likely be limited, so try to arrive early if you can.

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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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