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.
I have long speculated that Kasdan primarily wrote the first third of TFA (my favorite section) and that JJ had far more of an input in the rest of the movie. Again, this is backed by nothing other than the fact that I consider Kasdan to be a far superior writer.