Director Rian Johnson offers early look at time machine from 'Looper'

Director Rian Johnson shows off the "Looper" time machine.

If it's not on your movie radar for 2012, you might want to pencil in "Looper" for Sept. 28 because it sounds promising.

Director Rian Johnson is giving the film an early push by releasing a black-and-white photograph of the time machine that will be featured in the movie. But it's the plot that has our attention. In the movie, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is part of a group of mob hitmen called "Loopers" who use a time machine to send their victims into the past to be killed. Gordon-Levitt's character becomes understandably conflicted when his latest victim shows up - a future version of himself, played by Bruce Willis.

Reports Janice Kay of sciencefiction.com: 

Filming for ‘Looper’ wrapped early last year and preliminary screenings of the film was met with some great positive reactions. It sounds like this film is worth seeing.

Unless you have your own time machine, you'll have to wait until the fall to find out for sure.