Rian Johnson opens up about the long road of writing and getting financing for his Looper. Writer/director Rian Johnson‘s Looper is an intricately told film. Nearly every scene in the movie is packed full of new information, from character development to world building. As Johnson explains finding that structure, it was like creating stepping stones across a pond for Read MoreRead More
Rian Johnson discusses the most pivotal scene in his time travel mind-bender Looper, as told to Kyle Buchanan of Vulture.com It’s the obvious one: the diner scene between Bruce and Joe, which is almost like its own little movie wedged into the middle of a bigger movie. There was just a lot of weight on it for Read MoreRead More
This is a strange curiosity I thought might be interesting – just after I finished the script for Looper but before we began preproduction I asked Joe to record some voice-over, and with help from my friend Ronen Verbit constructed this “fake trailer” using clips from other movies. This is a fairly common thing to Read MoreRead More
Writer and Director of Looper Rian Johnson offers up six tips on how to be a better filmmaker. Read Great Stuff That Has Nothing to Do With Anything You’re Writing I’m in that phase right now where I’m fishing for the next idea, so this is the first tip I thought of. But it’s applicable at all Read MoreRead More
/Film interviews Rian Johnson, writer and director of Looper talks about the time travel tropes and how to pick your battles when working in Sci-Fi. MAJOR SPOILERS – frankly this won’t even make sense unless you’ve seen the film – which you should… it’s good. Looper is exactly the kind of movie we all say we want, mixing a Read MoreRead More
