Following Brick with The Brothers Bloom cemented director Rian Johnson’s reputation as a master storyteller.

There were a few dissenting voices who didn’t enjoy the conman capers of Stephen and Bloom but I loved it, and found myself intrigued as word of Johnson’s follow up reached us, and now we’ve got a first look at one of the big names in the cast as the first production still is released.

Looper is a time travel thriller in which victims from the future are sent back in time to be murdered, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily Blunt star with the man on show here who is related in some spoilery way to Gordon-Levitt.

This is not the first image we’ve seen from the production as there’s a good looking Tumblr right here which has kept us up to date with some abstract pictures from the film’s shoot and there have also been some intrigiung on set pictures giving a good look at the future Johnson has in store for us.

Here’s the picture of Mr Willis and a big gun.

Empire had it first. Shout your cheers at them.

A number of set photos have appeared online from Endgame Entertainment’s currently-in-production sci-fi thriller Looper.

Directed by Rian Johnson (Brick), Looper stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Xu Qing, Noah Segan, Jeff Daniels and Piper Perabo.

A killer who works for the mob of the future recognizes one of his targets as his future self.

Looper is currently filming in New Orleans, and will be released sometime in 2012.

For another look at the production you can do no better than bookmark the LooperMovie Tumblr, which has constantly updated behind the scenes pics.

Source: On Location Vacations

Some more names have been added to the already impressive cast of Rian Johnson’s third feature, the intriguing sci-fi feature, Looper.

Variety has confirmed that the always-reliable Jeff Daniels has joined Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt and Paul Dano for the tale of a group of killers who send their victim’s bodies back in time to cover up their crimes. One of these killers (Gordon-Levitt) begins to question his role when he recognizes one of his intended targets as his future self!

Piper Perabo and Noah Segan are the other additions here. Segan appeared in Johnson’s previous films, The Brothers Bloom and Brick.

Here’s the brand new UK poster for Carriers. We’ve previously posted the trailer which you can see here. Carriers stars Chris Pine, Lou Taylor Pucci, Piper Perabo, Emily VanCamp and Christopher Melon and is directed by Alex Pastor and David Pastor.

It’s set for release 11th December and you can check out our review here. Click the poster to enlarge.

With all the hype surrounding the big release of Star Trek this week I was very interested in seeing Chris ‘Captain Kirk’ Pine’s next role in ‘Carriers’ and it was a strange film, fascinatingly apocalyptical but drowning in it’s own idea.

Looking into the history of the film it was interesting to see that it was written and directed by Alex and David Pastor and completed and screened way back in 2007 but Paramount put it on the shelf and it’s likely that the rise in fame of Chris Pine is the reason why it’s been finally given it’s release, and worryingly I entered the screening apprehensive that it was shelved due to being rubbish. But fortunately it wasn’t it was an ok film.

The story is of a world devastated by an unknown disease and the survivors struggle to stay alive by trying to avoid it, our heroes of the film brothers Brian (Pine) and Danny (Lou Taylor Pucci) and two girls Bobby (Piper Perabo) the girlfriend of Brian and Kate (Emily Vancamp) travel together avoiding contact with anyone they come across where possible.

The brothers aim is to reach a beach that they use to visit as kids which is shown in old film footage of the brothers to give a sense of a goal as they try to survive, nothing is going to stop them and they will do anything to get there.

On route they pass an SUV where a father begs for petrol for him and his sick daughter but they flee seeing the disease is evident on the girl, they eventually come to a stop as their car breaks down and knowing they have petrol and the SUV doesn’t they venture back to the SUV and take it, sealing the father and daughter in the rear with plastic sheeting and duct tape as morals dictate you can’t leave a child behind to die. can you.

The film then follows the story of survival and huge moral dilemma’s as situations escalate more and more leaving our characters to have to choose survival or risk putting everyone in jeopardy and it’s the movies strong point asking the characters to make these decisions is harsh and asks you the viewer what would you do in there situation, it’s a brutal lesson of human behaviour.

What I liked about the film apart from the horrific ethical choices that are made are the people our characters meet, all trying to survive or find/believe in a cure and the ones that come to terms with what’s going on are the ones that make the decisions that are completely wrong in a normal world but are justified when in a world like this and where immense pain and suffering are the only alternative to a quick death, but not everyone can except these choices.

The film does seem to forget it’s own rules of how the disease transmits from person to person, at the start of the movie there are rules they follow, no contact with infected, clean everything that was touched by infected and avoid the breath of infected and they do this religiously but later on they seem to forget these rules with no consequence so you lose any fear of the disease which annoyed me.

But there is a great scene of a golf course hotel where they come across a band of guys who are suited in hazmat outfits and have stockpiled supplies and the paranoia and circumstances of this face off is splendid and shows self preservation of the human mind which is what these apocalypse films should be about.

The tense finale at the golf course is gripping and brutally character building that leads to later choices that affect the traveling companions.

I’m currently reading Stephen King’s “The Stand” and it follows the same basic idea of a disease that wipes out most of humanity so this story really struck me, I love these end of world movies where there are few survivors hanging onto the hope of salvation and there has been a few recently with Zombieland and The Road and it’s the Road this has more in common with. No explanation of why or how, it just is and that’s more terrifying than knowing some times.

Overall a reasonably good watch, the moral choices are fascinating but the plot seems to stumble along, it’s best to go in with no expectations and just enjoy the moral choices everyone has to make throughout. It’s a film obviously groping for the “Captain Kirks in it” crowd but it will definitely appeal to a larger audience. It has some nice scares and mentally challenging scenarios and well worth a trip to the cinema.

Overall 6.5 out of 10.

Carriers is out on 11th December.

Here’s the trailer for new movie, Carriers. It looks a bit like a mix between 28 Days Later and The Happening. Carriers stars Chris Pine, Lou Taylor Pucci, Piper Perabo, Emily VanCamp and Christopher Melon and is directed by Alex Pastor and David Pastor. The trailer does look good even though it does seem to be a rehash of other movies. I guess we’ll wait to find out if the movie is different enough to be deemed an original idea.

The premice seems to follow the similar line to The Happening where the population of America (it’s always you guys over the pond!) has been infected by a deadly virus and those who haven’t yet been infected must fight for their lives and, in this case, for the lives of their children.

It’s out 11th December.