This has been quite a year for Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily Blunt, as each of them have appeared in a number of movies with JGL taking a more prominent role in movies like Christopher Nolanās The Dark Knight Rises and Premium Rush and Blunt leading romantic comedies big and small with The Five-Year Engagement and Your Sisterās Sister.
They come together in Rian Johnsonās Looper, a futuristic crime noir in which JGL plays Joe, a hitman who kills targets sent back in time from 30 years in the future until the day itās his time to āclose his loopā where he encounters his future self, played by Bruce Willis. Before he can take care of his target, the older Joe cold cocks him and sets off on his own mission to kill the man responsible for his future woes while heās still a child. Blunt plays a woman named Sara who lives out in a rural area where sheās protecting a young boy who may be that future crime overlord.
At the Looper junket at the Toronto International Film Festival, ComingSoon.net was scheduled to talk to Gordon-Levitt and Blunt, and we begin with the former, who previously starred in Rian Johnsonās debut film Brick and whom Johnson wrote the part of Joe with him in mind. We spoke to Joe about:
* How Rian approached him with the idea of doing āLooperā
* When he knew that Bruce Willis would play his older self
* Doing the long scene with Bruce in the diner
* How Rian has changed as a director over time and making a bigger budget movie
* Directing his own movie and what he got out of working with the likes of Nolan, Spielberg and JohnsonĀsaying they have a lot in common and how he feels they all belong in the same echelon
Oh, and we did throw in a quick question about whether heād be interested in showing up in the planned Justice League movie as Batman or Nightwing with the right script or director and here was his response:
āWell, you know, I always decide my projects based on the same things, if Iām really inspired by the material and if thereās a filmmaker who I really admire and I really connect to. Thatās kind of always how I do it.ā
In other words, we may just have to wait and see, and of course, itās up to Warner Bros. if they want to continue John āRobinā Blakeās story into another movie post-Nolan.
