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Edge of Tomorrow 2

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Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse have been tapped to write the sequel to Tom Cruise and Doug Liman’s sci-fi sleeper hit Edge Of Tomorrow. The original film, also starring a buffed-up Emily Blunt, was a guilty pleasure for many genre fans with its time-bending narrative and stylish chemistry between its leads. Although a slow opener domestically, it eventually hit $100 million in the U.S. More importantly, it was a bone fide smash internationally, grossing a further $270 million or so to make the case for a sequel pretty compelling.
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Edge of Tomorrow is one of my favorite movies, so I'm pretty excited about this. No matter how crazy Tom Cruise is, he's still extremely compelling as an actor. I've seen this movie 5 or 6 times now and I could watch it a million more times. I'm thinking they could maybe find a way to take the battle to an enemy territory?
 
I think I'm in the minority who preferred "Oblivion" over "Edge of Tomorrow."

I don't remember there being much room for a sequel for EoT, but it's been a while since I saw it.

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No, there really wasn't. It would have to be another invasion.

I think Oblivion is okay. I wasn't a huge fan of the third act.
 
I liked both and am also not entirely sure where they can go with a sequel (unless they go prequel with The Angel of Verdun or something).

I'm certainly have a look when it comes out though.
 
I liked both but prefer "Oblivion" even though the end was somewhat predictable.
 
They missed an opportunity to go super-douchey and call it Edge of 2morrow.

There's nothing stopping the aliens from coming back again, or even using a more powerful, as yet unseen, time-looping alien to simply reset the previous invasion again, but I think John Clark's idea of them doing a prequel featuring Emily Blunt's timeloops until she becomes the Angel of Verdun makes the most sense.
 
Edge of Tomorrow is a great movie, but with a horrible title. It sounds so much like a Sindey Sheldon novel that I didn't bother with it in the theaters.
 
Foxhot said:
What would've been so risky about ''Live, Die, Repeat?'' It sums up Cruise's dilemma perfectly. It's not like ''Eat, Pray, Love.'' Or were they released so close together studios got antsy?
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What would've been so risky about "All You Need Is Kill"?
 
Doug Liman is returning to direct, so he's probably out as Gambit director. Looks like Christopher McQuarrie is also producing. The Tom Cruise dream team is back
 
I loved Edge of Tomorrow and I'd love a sequel... but didn't Tom Cruise die for reals at the end of the movie???
 
Mr Light said:
didn't Tom Cruise die for reals at the end of the movie???
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No.
It ends with things completely resetting to before Cruise was arrested and sent to the enlisted ranks. Everyone at the base now shows him deference and respect since he's now an officer, he goes to meet Emily Blunt who still treats him the same way she always did when they first meet after a reset.
 
Kirby said:
Edge of Tomorrow is a great movie, but with a horrible title. It sounds so much like a Sindey Sheldon novel that I didn't bother with it in the theaters.
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The Japanese light novel it's based on is called All You Need is Kill, which is a much more distinctive and striking title. Apparently it was changed because some executive somewhere thought it was unpleasant to make people think about killing when advertising a war movie to them. Yyyeah. I guess that didn't occur to the makers of The Killing Fields, A View to a Kill, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, To Kill a Mockingbird, Machete Kills, Kill Bill, or Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

There seems to be a trend lately in movie marketing to replace interestingly weird titles with incredibly dull, generic titles. Like when DreamWorks made an animated movie based on The True Meaning of Smekday and called it... Home. And Andrew Niccol's film that started out with the memorable title I'm.mortal ended up being released as In Time, which tells you nothing.


Foxhot said:
What would've been so risky about ''Live, Die, Repeat?'' It sums up Cruise's dilemma perfectly. It's not like ''Eat, Pray, Love.'' Or were they released so close together studios got antsy?
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That was originally just the tagline, the advertising slogan. It was never considered as the actual title. But when the movie performed disappointingly and the generic title was blamed, the DVD packaging and promotion played up the tagline and played down the actual title, as if to give the impression that "Live. Die. Repeat" was the actual title.
 
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