There Will Be Blood’s Paul Dano has joined the cast of Rian Johnson’s (Brick) upcoming time-travel thriller Looper, according to Variety. Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt are set to headline the movie.
Johnson will direct the movie from his own script, which is set in the near future and follows a group of killers (called Loopers) who send their victims’ dead bodies back in time, in order to ensure there’s no evidence of the crime. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a looper in the past, who goes on the run after complications occur, with Blunt as a woman woman who finds Levitt hiding in her barn. There’s no news however on who Dano might play. The movie will reunite Rian with producer Ram Bergman, who worked with Johnson on both The Brothers Bloom and Brick.
Looper is set to begin production in Louisiana early next year.