Bruce Willis’ Intense Sci-Fi Thriller Officially Hits Netflix
Rian Johnson’s science fiction thriller *Looper* has started streaming on Netflix. The film follows a hired assassin whose employers send targets 30 years into the past, until he is ordered to kill his own future self, played by Bruce Willis. Its arrival gives Netflix viewers access to a film that combines time travel with a criminal plot.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays the younger Joe, alongside Willis as older Joe, with Emily Blunt, Paul Dano and Jeff Daniels among the cast. Released to commercial success, *Looper* earned about $176.5 million worldwide against a reported production budget of $30 million. The story is set in a future where time travel is illegal and available only through the black market.
In short
- *Looper* is now streaming on Netflix.
- Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt play older and younger Joe.
- The film made about $176.5 million worldwide.
Explained simply
Looper is a science fiction film written and directed by Rian Johnson. It is set in a future where time travel is illegal, but criminal groups use it to send people from 30 years ahead into the past to be killed.
The central character, Joe, is an assassin paid to kill those arrivals. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Joe when he is young, and Bruce Willis plays him later in life; Emily Blunt, Paul Dano and Jeff Daniels also appear. The film’s premise links a crime story to questions about how actions in the past might affect the future.
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