9 Actors Who Helped Movies In Ways You Won't Believe
4. Shane Carruth Consulted On The Time Travel Sequences - Looper
Shane Carruth is an actor and filmmaker best known for his mind-bending sci-fi films Primer and Upstream Color, which have steered aggressively away from the big-budget mainstream.
So it's surprising to learn, then, that Carruth actually worked as a consultant on an ultra-mainstream, star-studded sci-fi film with a budget literally hundreds of times larger than those of his two acclaimed features.
As reported by director Rian Johnson during production of his 2012 hit film Looper, Carruth was present on set and helped prep some of the film's planned time travel-based visual effects sequences, as well as giving Johnson some notes on the script.
Sadly Carruth's effects sequences were ultimately deemed too expensive to shoot and so Carruth's active input was only on the script, despite working extensively with Johnson during the post-production process.
Still, it's fascinating that such a champion of low-fi filmmaking, who has typically struggled to get his ambitious, left-field ideas brought to the big screen, was able to play in the studio sandbox for a little while.