Looper (film)

Looper
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRian Johnson
Written byRian Johnson
Produced by
Starring
CinematographySteve Yedlin
Edited byBob Ducsay
Music byNathan Johnson
Production
companies
Distributed byTriStar Pictures[2]
Release dates
  • September 6, 2012 (2012-09-06) (TIFF)
  • September 28, 2012 (2012-09-28) (United States)
Running time
118 minutes[3]
CountryUnited States[2]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$30 million[4]
Box office$176.5 million[4]

Looper is a 2012 American science fiction action-thriller film[4] written and directed by Rian Johnson, and produced by Ram Bergman and James D. Stern. It stars Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt. It revolves around "present-day" contract killers called "loopers" whose targets are sent back through time by criminal syndicates from the future.

Looper was selected as the opening film of the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the United States on September 28, 2012.[5][6] The film received critical acclaim and was a box office success, grossing $176 million worldwide on a $30 million budget.

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  3. ^ "Looper". British Board of Film Classification. Archived from the original on September 29, 2013. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
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  5. ^ "US Release Date". June 9, 2012. Archived from the original on March 23, 2012. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
  6. ^ "UK Release Date". June 27, 2012. Retrieved June 30, 2012.