Beaks here...
When Rian Johnson finished the screenplay for his time-travel opus LOOPER, he immediately sent it off to Shane Carruth for a bit of big-brain fact checking - because if there's anyone who knows how temporal to-ing and fro-ing works in cinema, it's the writer-director of PRIMER. And while I don't know for sure what Carruth thought of the script's scientific accuracy, I'm guessing he didn't hate it because, as Johnson just revealed via Twitter, Carruth is now working on LOOPER.
In what capacity? Johnson didn't say in his Tweet (and it wasn't terribly apparent from the nifty picture he posted to his Tumblr), so I sent the following DM to Johnson via Twitter...
"Hate to be a pest, but, um, what's Mr. Carruth doing on LOOPER?"
To which Johnson responded...
"Designing some of the special effects that have to do with the time travel. And craft services."
Perfect. Shane is a talented computer f/x designer along with being a phenomenally gifted writer-director, so this seems an ideal way to get him back in back in the filmmaking swing of things. Also, he lives in Texas, so I'm sure he knows his way around a barbecue pit. I just hope that once Carruth is finished with LOOPER, someone will take a chance on the cerebral sci-fi project he's been trying to get off the ground for the last couple of years. No one this good should go a decade without making a movie.
As you no doubt know, LOOPER stars Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt and Paul Dano. It will likely hit theaters in 2012. To keep up on the movie, follow the @Loopermovie or @rcjohnso on Twitter.
Here's how Johnson described LOOPER last year...
