In the futurist action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented
- but it will be illegal & only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will 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 & 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 & directed by Rian Johnson & also stars Emily Blunt, Paul Dano & Jeff Daniels. Ram Bergman & James D. Stern produce.