LOOPER Nominated For "Original Screenplay" Writers Guild Award

LOOPER Nominated For "Original Screenplay" Writers Guild Award

Director Rian Johnson's script for his sci-fi thriller Looper, which stars TDKR's Joseph Gordon-Levitt, has been nominated by the Writers Guild Awards in the "Original Screenplay" category. The ceremonies will be held next month.

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By PaulRom - Jan 04, 2013 12:01 PM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi
Source: The Hollywood Reporter



With the simultaneous ceremonies scheduled to be held February 17th in Los Angeles and New York, the nominees for the Writers Guild Awards have officially been announced. Most of the nominations aren't very surprising, but in the "Original Screenplay" category, director Rian Johnson's script for his critically acclaimed sci-fi thriller Looper has received a nod. The film, which stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis, has been campaigning for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards. Fingers crossed that the script will be nominated for an Oscar.

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Flight, written by John Gatins; Paramount Pictures
Looper, written by Rian Johnson; TriStar Pictures
The Master, written by Paul Thomas Anderson; The Weinstein Co.
Moonrise Kingdom, written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola; Focus Features
Zero Dark Thirty, written by Mark Boal; Columbia Pictures


Additionally, Ang Lee's Life Of Pi has been nominated for "Adapted Screenplay", alongside other candidates such as Steven Spielberg's Lincoln and Ben Affleck's Argo. For the full list on that and "Documentary Screenplay", click the source link below.









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shamo
shamo - 1/4/2013, 12:26 PM
script was pretty brilliant. i'd love to see him helm a CBM of some sort.
Jolt17
Jolt17 - 1/4/2013, 12:28 PM
Well deserved. Very, very well deserved.
Maximus101
Maximus101 - 1/4/2013, 12:28 PM
Tough choice, it should be between looper and zero dark thirty in my opinion. I think zero dark thirty will win for obvious reasons.
Parker2017
Parker2017 - 1/4/2013, 12:35 PM
YES! Lets Hope Looper Wins :) that movie was great, nicely written, and wonderfully done.

@SuperDude001 I think Johnson should direct the whole new trilogy :p
Ceejay
Ceejay - 1/4/2013, 12:48 PM
@Parker2017 - He should stay the hell away from that shambles called Star Wars, he's far too good to waste his talents regurgitating franchises for braindead cinema. He's an auteur, he's written and directed all his movies and all three have been excellent. People like him are the last bastion of real creativity while the rest of Hollywood simply spew out remakes, prequels and sequels of the same stupid action movie templates.

Great News, well deserved!

But soon the comments will come on how someone thinks Dredd was a better film because it had lots of people getting shot.
JokerFan21
JokerFan21 - 1/4/2013, 12:55 PM
It deserves an Oscar nomination in my opinion. The last spot is going to be between this and Flight. (others are The Master, Moonrise Kingdom, Zero Dark Thirty and Django Unchained)
Rothwilder
Rothwilder - 1/4/2013, 1:33 PM
Looper was very predictable, but just my opinion. How was it original?
marvel72
marvel72 - 1/4/2013, 2:00 PM
looper was film of the year for me.
rockerdude22
rockerdude22 - 1/4/2013, 2:44 PM
Excellent movie! Johnson is a very talented writer-director!
CyberA
CyberA - 1/4/2013, 2:49 PM

I watched it on Amazon Instant Video, earlier this week... It, actually, wasn't half-bad, really... *cool*/P :)
Reasonnnn
Reasonnnn - 1/4/2013, 3:35 PM
@rothwilder: so a future where time travel is invented but illegal and your future self going back to stop your younger self from being killed by killing a child who'll grow up to be the Looper exterminator is NOT original? Okay.
webheaded
webheaded - 1/4/2013, 7:54 PM
Not Django Unchained? WHAAAATTT?
LAXtremest
LAXtremest - 1/4/2013, 7:57 PM
2nd best movie of the year
NightBoyWonder
NightBoyWonder - 1/4/2013, 7:58 PM
Please do Cowboy Bebop next... he's a fan, and he had the perfect elements in Looper that he could make a film.
prototype87
prototype87 - 1/4/2013, 9:00 PM
this movie is great...but don't ever watch it if ur really sleepy.. cause there's so many quiet long moments.
mkilban2
mkilban2 - 1/4/2013, 10:02 PM
out of the ones I've seen on there I gotta go w/ Moonrise Kingdom. Wanna see Zero Dark and The Master though
comiccow6
comiccow6 - 1/5/2013, 3:35 AM
What about the Dark Knight Rises? It didn't follow the comics in any way.
CyberA
CyberA - 1/5/2013, 1:08 PM

@Reasonnnn: Let us not forget the ending where the younger Joe Simmons kills himself, in order to stop his older self from killing this would-be looper-exterminator... ;); *cool*/P :)
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