Looper - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Looper or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Looper

[darrell]

The second of three films that star Emily Blunt, which involve characters trying to change the future: the first was The Adjustment Bureau (2011), and the third was Edge of Tomorrow (2014).

[edgar]

Joe was born in 2019.

[bryan]

The red car Joe drives is a mark 1 Mazda MX5 (aka Miata). The car was originally manufactured between 1990 and 1998 as is in keeping with Joe's late 20th century "retro" style.

[norma]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt was fitted with prosthetics, and studied past movies, in order to play Bruce Willis' younger self. He was so successful that Willis recognized his own mannerisms in their scenes together.

[bernard]

This is the third time Bruce Willis' character has time-traveled and encountered his younger self. The first two were 12 Monkeys (1995) and The Kid (2000).

[wallace]

The script originally called for Joe to move to Paris when he got older, which is why he spends the early scenes trying to learn French. However, Rian Johnson soon realized that they didn't have the money to shoot in Paris. He considered using New Orleans to "stand in" for Paris, but rejected that idea. The Chinese distributor for the film offered to pay for the crew to film in Shanghai, and Johnson accepted, both because it solved the Paris problem, and because he felt Shanghai better reflected the future setting of the movie.

[cameron]

The scene where Young Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) falls off the fire escape was filmed on the actor's 30th birthday. Gordon-Levitt was left hanging on the stunt wires while the crew sang "Happy Birthday" and wheeled out a birthday cake.

[camila]

A diner was built in the small town of Thibodaux, Louisiana (sixty miles west of New Orleans), where all of the diner interior/exterior scenes were shot. Locals saw the diner set and kept asking the film crew on when the new diner was going to open. Director Rian Johnson was later told that the diner set was still standing after Hurricane Isaac moved through in September 2012.

[phyllis]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis co-starred again two years later in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014), although they shared no scenes together.

[dustin]

Rian Johnson wanted the 1984 Tri-Star logo to open the film, but was unable to obtain it for unknown reasons. Although the 1993 Tri-Star logo precedes U.S. copies of the film, the print version is not featured (due in part to this being produced by Endgame and FilmDistrict). The film's title is the last thing to appear in the end credits.

[darrell]

Bruce Willis fires two modern-looking Personal Defense Weapons in one scene. These are examples of the FN P90, designed and manufactured by FN Herstal in Belgium. Though somewhat futuristic looking, these weapons would have been virtually antiques by the time of the film's setting, having been first produced in 1990.

[chris]

In the future, the Rainmaker's henchmen dress in black overcoats and wide-brimmed cowboy hats. During shots of Cid's boyhood room, you see a poster for "Bad Bob" and an action figure on his desk wearing the same black overcoat and wide-brimmed cowboy hat.

[christina]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis, who play the two Joes, appeared in succeeding installments of the "G.I. Joe and Cobra" live-action movies. Joseph in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), and Bruce in G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013).

[kim]

A recurring motif in the film is clouds, including actual clouds in the sky, cigarette smoke, the dust cloud that Joe uses to defeat Kid Blue, and even creamer poured into black coffee (when Cid kills Jesse, the blood also has a cloud-like appearance). This ties into the "Rainmaker" plot.

[elmer]

Early on, Joe is shown studying French without much success. Ironically, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is quite fluent in French.

[eli]

The incredibly large "GAT" pistols are actual production firearms, and not just a prop created for the film. It is a Magnum Research BFR (Big Frame Revolver) chambered in .45-.70 caliber Government, a rifle round originally adopted by the U.S. military in 1873. The BFR weighs roughly 4.5 pounds.

[mathew]

The cash that Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Joe receives for two bars of silver at the film's beginning bear an image of China's Zedong Mao.

[oscar]

Rian Johnson had been collecting ideas for this movie since 2002.

[darrell]

Emily Blunt revealed that she agreed to star in the movie after reading half of the script. She didn't even know what her character was.