First Look: Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Rian Johnson’s New Film ‘Looper’

One of the questions inspiring Looper is “What would you do if you were sitting across the table from your older self?” Director Rian Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom) has made a time travel sci-fi film called Looper, about Loopers, men alive 30 years before time travel is invented who wait at locations as mob hitmen, who take out people sent back in time to them. It’s a great concept, until, as the question asks, what if the guy sent back was you. In the film, Bruce Willis plays the older version of Joseph Gordon-Levitt. While we’ve seen a good look at Bruce, this is our first good look at Joe playing Joe as Bruce, in make-up. Following a successful WonderCon panel and debut of the first official teaser trailer for Looper (which will be officially out mid-April) they’ve unveiled these two photos to give us a look at what he …