When Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt‘s time travel thriller Edge of Tomorrow hit home video it was retitled to the film’s tagline, Live Die Repeat. It was a bold move by distributor Warner Bros. Pictures on Doug Liman’s sci-fi film adapted from the novel “All You Need is Kill”.
A sequel has been in development since early 2016, which is being penned by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse, and will see Liman back in the director’s chair, with Cruise and Blunt starring once again.
Something I had never pondered was, what will the film’s title be? Well, it’s actually pretty interesting.
“We have an amazing story! It’s incredible! Way better than the first film, and I obviously loved the first film,” Liman told Collider. “It will be called Live Die Repeat and Repeat. Tom [Cruise] is excited about it, and Emily Blunt is excited about it. The big question is just when we’ll do it. But it’s not an if, it’s a when.”
It’s interesting that they’re going with the film’s home video title as opposed to that of the theatrical release. I’m not quite sure this has ever been done before; with that said, the title is pretty damn cool.
As for that story that Liman’s so excited about, he previously told the site that the film is actually a sequel that’s a prequel, noting his intention to upend how people look at sequels in the first place:
“I’ve had some radical ideas about how to make a sequel that would interest me, in the same way that I had ideas of how you make an independent film and then ‘Swingers’ came along and it was like ‘Aha, that’s the perfect movie for me to test these ideas out on.’ I had these intellectual ideas on how you should make a sequel that are unlike how anybody else makes a sequel, and this script and this idea fit perfectly into that idea. So it’s gonna revolutionize how people make sequels. And again that’s why I try to do things like Invisible that are just, the revolution’s sort of built into the idea. It’s more heresy in the film world for me to pitch things that are sort of unheard of.”
In the film, Earth falls under attack from invincible aliens and Maj. William Cage (Tom Cruise), an officer who has never seen combat, is assigned to a suicide mission. Killed within moments, Cage finds himself thrown into a time loop, in which he relives the same brutal fight — and his death — over and over again. However, Cage’s fighting skills improve with each encore, bringing him and a comrade (Emily Blunt) ever closer to defeating the aliens.
As I wrote in my review, “Edge of Tomorrow manages to be a hybrid of groundbreaking films like Groundhog Day and Matrix, utilizing a flurry of fireworks effects and strong character development to create a sci-fi masterpiece.”