From what I’ve heard Looper is a very interesting movie so if anything we should be getting a “radical” film.
What a naive thinking. It will be Disney/LF who will specify what kind of film it will be.
They wouldn’t hire someone like this if they didn’t want to go in an interesting direction. If they really wanted more of the same they would have probably would have went for a more run of the mill director.
I would not call Kasdan “run-of-the-mill” writer either and yet look at how TFA turned out.
Yes, TFA was safe but so was Rogue One and they’re both good films. But lets not forget that JJ wrote the script as well so I’m sure a lot of the safe aspects of the film were due to him and Disney.