“Create something as ambitious as in the first”: where is the sequel to this SF film with Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt?
Released 9 years ago, Edge of Tomorrow seduced the press and the public with its playful approach to science fiction, a sort of cross between Groundhog Day and a war film, where a commander, stuck in a time loop, had to fight hordes of aliens in 2020.
The film had brought in approximately $370 million in revenue worldwide and attracted more than 1.2 million spectators in France.
A sequel was announced in 2015, a year after its release, still worn by Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, and with Doug Liman directing. The director of Mr. & Mrs. Smith did not hide his enthusiasm in 2017 and announced that he wanted to favor characters over action:
“You do the first movie kind of like a publicity campaign to advertise a sequel, so now you don’t need as much action, and in the case of Edge of Tomorrow, audiences obviously loved the comedy and the situation“. He also teased the arrival of a new character who would steal the show from Blunt and Cruise.
With a busy schedule, the filmmaker had to postpone the project: he was in the running to direct Justice League Dark. As for Tom Cruise, he was busy with Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Fallout as well as The Mummy while Blunt was preparing Mary Poppins Returns.
At the start of 2018, Liman confirmed that the screenplay was complete. Yet a year later, Warner Bros. announced that it had found its screenwriter in the person of Matthew Robinson (The Invention of Lying, Monster Cars, Dora and the Lost City).
In October 2019, Doug Liman confirmed to the ComicBookMovie site that Edge of Tomorrow 2 was only a matter of time, once the filming of the next Mission: Impossible was completed: “I hope it will happen. If it does, it will be the right time“.
While Emily Blunt has filmed Jungle Cruise and Quietly 2 and Liman Chaos Walking, it seems that the future of Edge of Tomorrow is in the hands of Tom Cruise who will have to find space in his schedule to find Major Bill Cage.
We should create something as ambitious as in the first
On the site Deadlineactress Emily Blunt gives some news of the project, but nothing very concrete: “I would love to do another one. I don’t know when or how, but I would like to. (…) I enjoyed this experience so much, and I would love to work with Doug Liman again.
We would have to create something as ambitious as in the first one. How much can we take advantage of this time loop? What will be the new construction of the film?“
We will still have to be patient to discover the rest of this film.