Nathan Johnson

Bruce Willis speaks (highly!) about Looper and Mr. RCJohnso in this month’s Esquire

(Willis) really wants to talk about Looper, the tale of a time-traveling corporate assassin sent back in time to meet, for lack of a better word (and avoiding a spoiler), his maker. “It’s better than anything I’ve ever done…Rian did an amazing thing. He conceived an original story. He wrote it, sold it, stuck with it, directed it, and finished it,” Willis says. “That’s just tough to do in this town. Someone always weasels into the process. That didn’t happen here. And if he never did anything else except that Herculean effort, he’d have made it in the business. Amazing.

“It’s more than an original story. It’s a story people are going to talk about, and see twice. And argue about. I was arguing with myself about the story when I read it the first time. That’s all Rian Johnson, beginning to end. Great, great director.”

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Our first proper glimpse of Emily Blunt’s tan, blonde, and decidedly un-blueblood look. We’ve released a few other official stills as well.

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Rian Talks About Looper

So Collider has an interview up with Rian in which he talks about Looper! The whole interview is great, but I know some of you have been asking about the score… if you go to the 6.44 mark, you’ll hear a bit about how we approached this one. Quite a bit different from Bloom or Brick, but in a way, I think there is definitely a common thread!

(Source: collider.com)

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Looper Vignette

Check out iTunes for the first snippet of video which features Rian and Joe talking about Looper!

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LOOPER!!!

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The Wall Street Journal just posted some early coverage about Looper, including the first talk about how we did the score in this interview with Rian and Joe:

“What other collaborators are you working with behind the scenes? Is your cousin doing the music as with your other movies?

Johnson: Yeah, my cousin, Nathan. It’s so cool. He took this tape recorder out to New Orleans where we were shooting the movie and found all these sounds and then sampled them and slowed them down 3000 percent, and basically using all these unconventional sounds built up a score that has kind of the of an orchestra basically so its this very huge action movie score but the sounds that you’re hearing are just foreign to your ear. It’s really a cool, cool score. [And] our cinematographer [Steve Yedlin,] I’ve been best friends with since college. And that’s very much the way we like to work — to find people we love hanging out with and slowly build up a family that we make movies with.”

So excited for you guys to hear this one! Click through the image for the entire article.