Director Of Primer Joins Director Of Brick On "Looper"

 
I admit to an almost absurd fondness for Brick, the 2005 microbudget high-school-meets-noir detective film that showed everyone that Joseph Gordon-Levitt was more than just "that kid with the annoying hair on 3rd Rock." (In fact, I wrote a little Instant Queue piece on it last year.) I also really admire Primer, the even-more-microbudgeted time-travel film (made for a reported $7,000) that writer-director-star Shane Carruth issued the year before Brick came out, the bizarre plot of which led to such memorable dialogue as "I haven't eaten since later this afternoon."
 
What does any of this have to do with any of that? Well, it's being reported ( on the official Looper blog, no less) that Brick director Rian Johnson has enlisted the aid of Carruth to work on his new movie Looper, which, perhaps uncoincidentally, also features a time-travel plot, wherein near-future hitmen receive their victims from a far-future crime syndicate. The far-future evildoers send their enemies back in time, where the hitmen wind up killing them and disposing of the bodies, such that the far-future bad guys don't have to worry about any corpses. 
 
Carruth hasn't done anything since Primer, which is a damn shame, and it seems as though he might be having trouble getting funding for his next script, reportedly called A Topiary. Regardless, the meeting of the wunderkind indie minds should boost the anticipation for Looper quite a bit. Although Johnson has said that Carruth is only helping out with special effects for the time travel sequences, it's been known that he passed him the script for a read-over before pre-production began, and as such I wouldn't be surprised to see Carruth's role in the production expand a bit before everything's said and done. The film is set to begin shooting soon, and stars the aforementioned Jiggle and Bruce Willis.