Watch Rian Johnson’s ‘Looper’ Remade As A Classic Video Game
This is a pretty neat little thing. We’ve seen the trailer(s) forRian Johnson’s third filmLooper, which featuresBruce Willisas the older version of a futuristic hitman played byJoseph Gordon-Levitt. Time travel enables JGL’s character to make a small fortune bumping off mob targets, but it also puts his older self into own crosshairs. Naturally, problems ensue.
Now we can experience the film as it might have been incarnated for the Super Nintendo game console.Looper the Movie the 8-Bit Game(which really looks like a 16-bit game) takes images and text from the last great trailer and reworks the story of time travel-enabled assassins to create some neat video game scenarios, complete with appropriate-sounding music. Check out the video below.
EditorDeepak Chettygives some detail on the video’sVimeo page:
Made this while waiting for other renders to go through. Definitely my most anticipated movie of the fall/winter. Hopefully this is a start of a series of cinema games that never existed. Used: After Effects/Photoshop
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Looper opens on September 28, after playing festivals such as TIFF and Fantastic Fest. It co-starsEmily Blunt, Paul Dano, Noah Segan, Piper Perabo, andJeff Daniels.
In Looper, time travel will be invented – but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a “looper” – a hired gun, like Joe (Gordon-Levitt) – is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good… until the day the mob decides to “close the loop,” sending back Joe’s future self (Willis) for assassination.
[viaThe Verge]
