Bruce Willis to star in Looper

Rian Johnson's debut movie was Brick starring Joseph Gordon Levitt, it was a high school set noir and it was pretty brilliant, if you haven't seen it I suggest you pick it up. He followed that with the Brothers Bloom, a quirky comedy caper movie that seemed to take forever to get released and then when it did it was gone as quickly as it arrived, despite getting decent reviews.

Now he is gearing up for his third movie which is set to be a sci fi action film called Looper, it was announced the other week that Joseph Gordon Levitt would be starring in it and now comes news from Deadline.com that action icon Bruce Willis will also be coming aboard.

EXCLUSIVE: Bruce Willis is joining the cast of Looper, a science fiction time travel tale that reunites the Brick team of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and writer/director Rian Johnson. The Terminator-esque action film has a clever premise. Loopers are hit men whose victims are sent back in time from the future to be executed. The Loopers bump them off in the present, so there is no trace of a crime in the future. I'm told that Willis and Gordon-Levitt will play the same character, in those different time frames. That ploy is also being used in Men in Black 3, with Josh Brolin playing the younger version of Tommy Lee Jones's Agent Kay. CAA is repping North American rights, and FilmNation Entertainment is repping it. Insiders said it is not being shopped at this fest. But buyers are all over it.

Sci Fi is hitting a purple patch right now with Avatar and Star Trek hitting big last year and Moon garnering huge critical praise, then this summer will see Inception and Source Code (directed by Moon director Duncan Jones) is tipped to big by those that have read the script, and now we have Looper which quite frankly sounds like it may top the lot. I've been a fan of Willis since I was a kid and JGL is one of the most talented young actors working today, this combined with an interesting director and killer hook put Looper right up top of my anticipation list.