After getting a taste of big-budget action with G.I. Joe, it would seem that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is ready for more – albeit with filmmakers known more for smaller-scale films and slightly more intelligent work. He’s in talks for David Koepp’s Premium Rush and Rian Johnson’s Looper.
The Heat Vision blog reports that Rush would crop up first, and see the actor playing a New York bike messenger, who is tasked with picking up an envelope at Columbia University. But he soon discovers that the contents are a little more sensitive than some of his usual fare – and he gets chased across the city by a dirty cop who needs to get hold of it.
Koepp wrote the script with John Kamps, and wants to start work on it later this summer.
After that, it’s looking like Gordon-Levitt will be reuniting with his Brick director, the ace Rian Johnson.
Johnson, who last made The Brothers Bloom, has slowly been putting together his time-travel thriller Looper.
While he’s been fairly quiet about the concept, Johnson opened up to Cinematical's readers with this synopsis: "It nvolves a group of killers (called Loopers) who work for a crime syndicate in the future. Their bosses send their targets hogtied and blindfolded back in time to the Loopers, and their job is to simply shoot them in the head and dispose of the body. So the target vanishes from the future and the Loopers dispose of a corpse that doesn't technically exist, a very clean system. Complications set in from there..."
And before either, there’s Christopher Nolan’s Inception, which will arrive here in July…