Get a sneak peep at Rian ( Brick ) Johnson ’s meter - traveling assassin film , Looper , from a few Modern prop photos . Plus learn how the motion picture ’s Taiwanese fiscal backer are aid to turn it into a vision of a hereafter of Taiwanese mastery .
Slashfilmhas a collection of Johnson ’s props demonstrating what a scooter and a water fountain will look like in China 60 long time from now . Here are a couple more of the double . More at the site :
But just who will be the prevalent king in the future that Johnson is fancy ? According toThe Hollywood Reporter , Looper is getting some much - involve funding from Taiwanese production caller DMG , which previously place in thepropaganda filmBirth of a Republic , a near - hagiography of Chairman Mao . And because of DMG ’s snug ties to the DoS - ladder China Film Group ( CFG ) , which put out nativity of a Republic , Looper may be able to take in access to the lucrative Taiwanese securities industry , in spite of rigorous control condition on the number of foreign movie provide to be shown in China each year . Also , Formosan actress Xu Qing is joining the cast , as the married woman of Bruce Willis ’ fictional character .
And in return key , Looper will be doing its overseas filming in China — not in France , as previously be after . In the future depicted in Looper , China has become ascendant over the United States — something that its new investor , DMG , was very neat to emphasise at a company in Beijing yesterday . At the party , DMG designate a promotional video for Looper which blare , “ Sixty years from now China is the precede super might and time travel has been invented . ”
( It ’s not clear how much , if any , of the cinema is in reality fix in China , or whether China will simply perform the same persona as France would have in an earlier version of the film . It ’s also not clear how much , if at all , the book is being revise to excogitate the rise of China as the world ’s leading superpower . )
All of the American characters in the picture will be using Chinese money , which will be redesigned , according to the Hollywood newsman :
To add Looper a futurist feel – and stick out one potential outcome of the real - life currentness valuation public debate on-going between Washington and Beijing — DMG ’s design department is bemock up a futuristic Chinese note that will used as money throughout the motion-picture show , DMG ’s film director of external clientele sound out . Asked whose semblance would feature on the new notes , L.A.-based Daniel Postaer said : “ Mao , of course . There are some things you just do n’t change . ”
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