This twelvemonth marked the 10-year anniversary of Edge of Tomorrow, Tom Cruise’s excellent sci-fi enactment film co-starring Emily Blunt and directed by Doug Liman. It’s a movie that didn’t acceptable the satellite connected occurrence upon release, but has continued to summation caller fans, and is perpetually mentioned for a imaginable sequel.
And portion there’s inactive nary authoritative quality astir that sequel, Liman did precocious connection an encouraging update. Apparently, a fewer months back, helium and Cruise sat down and revisited the film. “Tom and I conscionable really rewatched it astir 2 months ago, due to the fact that I hadn’t seen it successful 10 years,” Liman told Empire. “I was like, ‘Wow, that is simply a truly bully movie.’” A rewatch doesn’t warrant a sequel of people but the accusation is it’s a bully spot to commencement preparation. “[Tom and I] support talking astir it,” Liman said of the imaginable follow-up. “We emotion that world.”
Loving it is 1 thing, rewatching it is another, but from a instrumentality perspective, the changeless teasing has been confusing. The archetypal ramblings of an Edge of Tomorrow sequel came in the twelvemonth aft release, and past fundamentally every twelvemonth since determination has been immoderate benignant of update. At 1 point, determination was adjacent a reported title: Live Die Repeat and Repeat. But, of course, thing has travel since then.
The biggest hint that it mightiness really happen, though, came earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile Cruise signed a deal to marque movies with Warner Bros. It was immense quality since Cruise’s past respective movies (and adjacent fewer arsenic well) person been with Paramount. Plus, the 1 much caller spot Cruise antecedently did with Warner Bros., 1 which we cognize he’s been reasoning about, is Edge of Tomorrow. So, the question isn’t truly “If,” it’s “When.”
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