Rian Johnson set for ‘Looper’ as next project…

[The project will team Johnson with producer Ram Bergman, who produced Johnson's previous two films, with the pair eyeing a 2009 start date. Johnson again will direct from his own script.

"Looper" is set in a present-day world in which a group of hitmen are sent their victims from the future.] — The Hollywood Reporter

Rian Johnson continues to do his thing, attempting to singe-handily reinvent genre films that have fallen out of grace… but, the important thing to note here is that he’s doing a very good job. His next film called ‘Looper’ will be a time-traveling sci-fi thriller and is set to start production in 2009, working from a script written by Johnson. We’ll first see Johnson’s reinvention of the conman flick  ’The Brothers Bloom’ hit theaters on January 16, 2009. Johnson is a fresh new favorite of mine, having loved ‘Brick’ (2005)  his film noir reinvention, setting the classic genre film in a Southern Californian high school, starring Joseph Gorgon-Levitt. I believe the 35 year-old phenom is one of a handful of exciting new director’s to keep an eye on in the coming years.