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Independent feature film 'Looper' auditioning actors in Los Angeles and New Orleans

*** Casting has been completed ***

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, and Emily Blunt have signed on to star in the Gordonstreet Pictures feature film "Looper", and additional casting for supporting actors, day players and extras is underway. Shooting will take place from January 24, 2011 through April 1, 2011 in New Orleans.

Endgame Entertainment is financing the movie, which is being produced by Ram Bergman's Gordonstreet Pictures. Endgame Entertainment's James D. Stern, Doug Hansen, and Lucas Smith are also producing. Rian Johnson will direct off a script that he wrote himself. Johnson has previously directed actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the 2005 film "Brick," which won several Independent Film, Film Critics, and Film Festival Awards. In addition, Rian Johnson recently directed the Endgame Entertainment film "The Brothers Bloom" which was distributed by Summit Entertainment in 2009.

Mary Vernieu, who has been nominated 10 times for Casting Society of America Artios Awards, is auditioning the film's supporting principal actor roles in Los Angeles.

Headshots and resumes from Los Angeles area talent can be mailed to the following:

Mary Vernieu
Loop Casting
19 Anchorage Street
Marina Del Rey 90292

Headshots and resumes from New Orleans area talent should be mailed to the following:


Lisa Mae & Craig Fincannon
Looper Casting
2717 Ridgelake Drive
Metairie, LA 70002

The extras, stand-ins, and photo doubles for "Looper" are being cast out of New Orleans. Local New Orleans area people who wish to be considered for extra work on the film can submit a small recent color snapshot, height, weight, age, and contact information to the following:

talazaccasting@gmail.com

Please put "LOOPER EXTRAS CASTING" in the subject line of your email.

Principal Actor Casting

See the post titled Headshot and Resume Information regarding how to submit for acting roles.

Los Angeles:

Please submit photos and resumes by MAIL ONLY.
No phone calls or personal drop-offs.


Mary Vernieu
Loop Casting
19 Anchorage Street
Marina Del Rey 90292

New Orleans:

Please submit photos and resumes by POSTAL MAIL ONLY.
No phone calls or personal drop-offs.


Lisa Mae & Craig Fincannon
Looper Casting
2717 Ridgelake Drive
Metairie, LA 70002

Extras Casting

New Orleans:

Wendy Talazac
Looper Extras Casting
128 S. Olympia Street
New Orleans, LA 70119
talazaccasting@gmail.com

Production Companies:

Do NOT send photos and resumes to the production companies, as they will most likely end up being thrown away. They do not cast the films, rather they hire casting directors who sort through the thousands of submissions.

Looper Production Office
1231 Prytania Street
4th Floor
New Orleans, LA 70130

Gordonstreet Pictures
2241 N. Cahuenga Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90068

Endgame Entertainment
9100 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite 100W
Beverly Hills, CA 90212

Producers:

Ram Bergman
Lucas Smith
James D. Stern
Douglas Hansen

Writer/Director:

Rian Johnson

Starring:

Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Joe
Bruce Willis - Old Joe
Emily Blunt - Sarah

Story:

A time travel thriller, set in a near future where time travel doesn't exist but will be invented in a few decades. It involves 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. The complicated plot involves a Looper named Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who works for this mob - called "the Gat Men," of the future. When he recognizes one victim as his future self (Bruce Willis), he hesitates, letting the man escape. In looper parlance, this is known as "letting the loop run" — and having a man from the future running around leads to other consequences. In order to save his immediate future, the man needs to track down and kill his future self, while his future self is trying to find and kill a young boy who is the key to his survival in the future. Emily Blunt will play the mother of the boy.