Video: Looper trailer and poster Colin D Miller June 27, 2012 Latest News and Videos 2001 A new trailer and poster has been released for the upcoming Looper. In the year 2042 time travel has not yet been invented. But in 30 years it will have been. In Rian Johnson’s highly anticipated sci-fi action thriller, Joe works as a looper, a futuristic assassin who receives and eliminates targets sent back in time by a criminal organisation. The only rule is that you do not let your target escape – even if that target is you. Loopers stars Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon Levitt and Emily Blunt and is released September 28.