In the Loop: Emily Blunt is joining Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis in Looper, a time-travel-centered action movie. The plot, which takes place in the future, is centered on a killer (Gordon-Levitt) who works for a mob of “loopers” who dispose of people who are sent from the future. But his world is upended when he recognizes one victim (Willis) as his future self. And then — good luck trying to follow this — “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.” For those of you who haven’t given up on this item yet Blunt will be playing this young boy’s mother. [HR]
Full Circle: Anthony Hopkins is joining the cast of 360, Fernando Meirelles’s drama comprised of multiple story lines related to love and infidelity. Hopkins will play a man who, on a trip to find his missing daughter, “connects” and strikes up a romance with a woman on a plane whose boyfriend has been unfaithful. [Deadline]
J.Lo Hits TV: ABC has given a script order to a new dramatic comedy produced by Jennifer Lopez. Lopez and her producing partner Simon Fields teamed up with Friends writer Alexa Junge to develop the hour-long project. The untitled show will focus on three branches of an extended Los Angeles family (that setup sound familiar to anyone?) … told through “the eyes of their three Latina nannies.” [Variety]
Goon-ies: Seann William Scott, Jay Baruchel, Alison Pill, and Marc-Andrew Grondin are joining Goon, an indie hockey comedy. Michael Dowse will be directing the film from a script by Baruchel and Evan Goldberg based on the book Goon: The True Story of an Unlikely Journey into Minor League Hockey. The film follows a bouncer (Scott) who joins a “downtrodden hockey team” after he is “touched by the fist of God” and helps the team reach their full potential … totally unlike every other sports movie you’ve seen. [HR]
Middle Man: Writer-producer Bill Kunstler has sold a comedy project to CBS based on Musings of a Middle Child, a manuscript by Bruce Hopman. The story is centered on a man “suffering from middle-child syndrome” who pledges to “spare his own middle child” from facing the same fate he has. [Deadline]