Looper, a science fiction action thriller film directed by Rian Johnson and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis, was released in theaters.
Time travel is invented but immediately outlawed and used only illegally by criminal organizations.
Criminal syndicates employ 'Loopers' — hitmen who kill targets sent back from the future and dispose of their bodies to erase evidence.
Joe begins working as a Looper, carrying out contracts for the criminal syndicates by killing victims sent from the future.
Joe's friend Seth joins the Looper organization alongside him, becoming a part of the criminal network.
Joe's future self is sent back in time to be killed by his younger self, beginning a chain of events to prevent a dystopian future.
Instead of killing his future self, young Joe allows old Joe to escape, setting off a conflict between them and the criminal syndicates.
Old Joe attempts to assassinate the Rainmaker, the emerging crime lord responsible for the collapse of loopers' world in the future.
A powerful crime lord known as the Rainmaker rises and instigates a violent future with widespread control and chaos.
Joe captures his older self and confronts him in order to prevent catastrophe, before ultimately deciding to help him stop the Rainmaker.
Old Joe sacrifices himself to prevent his future from coming true by killing the Rainmaker before he rises to power.
