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, Deadline reports.
The site had stated that Christopher McQuarrie was attached to direct, although McQuarrie took to Twitter to clarify that Liman is returning to the director’s chair.
Even though Cruise is the big draw, Emily Blunt’s strong female presence became the staple for why people fell in love with the sci-fi epic. Both Blunt and Cruise are returning after the first took in over $270 million worldwide.
In the film, Cruise played a military officer who is brought into an alien war against an extraterrestrial enemy who can reset the day and know the future. When this officer is enabled with the same power, he teams up with a Special Forces warrior (Blunt) to try and end the war.
As I wrote in my review:
‘Edge of Tomorrow,’ the Doug Liman-directed adaptation of “All You Need Is Kill,” 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.
Shrapnel and Whitehouse were brought on to do a rewrite of The Gray Man, based on the novel by Mark Greaney, at Sony.