“It’s one of these things where if Tom, Emily and I were to say, ‘we’re ready to pull the trigger on this script,’ it’s Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, the film gets made,” Liman said. I get sometimes the sequel just has to have more firepower or more explosions but no visual effect is going to top what you’re going to get from a great scene performed by Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt.” And it’s Blunt and Cruise’s availability that could get the Edge of Tomorrow (sorry, Live Die Repeat) sequel off the ground. That’s been my approach when developing the sequel and because Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt are such phenomenal actors. “I’ve always been interested in the idea of a sequel being more character-driven than the first film, because that’s not how things are normally done. Should the sequel go forward, it’s the filmmaker’s idea that the movie would actually be smaller. I’m not interested in aliens, I’m interested in the repeating the day part.’” At some point during the development of the screenplay of the first film, Warner Bros said to me, ‘Does he need to travel through time? Maybe he could just battle aliens.’ I was like, ‘Well if you want me to make this movie, he does. “When you try and develop a movie with a world that involves time travel, you quickly realize that humans are never going to travel through time because there are so many paradoxes. “It’s a very high bar because that was a really challenging film to go make,” Liman explained. Moving onto the subject of a sequel to the film, which has been rumored for years now, Liman admits that it is still in consideration. ![]() ![]() “And I think it’s the wrong title for the movie and I’m still hoping the film gets fully rebranded, because these films live forever in libraries.” (Later in the interview, he blames the movie’s commercial underperformance on the the fact that the studio “forced the wrong title on it.”) I fought Warner Bros on it and they insisted,” Liman told Collider. On his first day as a trooper, he begins repeating the day, over and over again, every time that he dies. If you haven’t seen the film (and, really, you should), it concerns Cruise’s civilian who gets drafted into a war between humans and an invading alien army. Firstly, Liman prefers the title Live Die Repeat, which was the film’s original tag line and used as a title when the film made its way to home video (it was based on a Japanese “light novel” with the even cooler name All You Need Is Kill).
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