EDGE OF TOMORROW - Five New Featurettes
Universal Pictures has released five great new featurettes for their extremely cool looking sci-fi action film, Edge of Tomorrow. The first two focus on the two main characters in the film played by Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. The other three focus on and are titled "Reliving the Day," the "Exo Suit" that sees a lot of action in the story, and "Learning to Fight." The videos include footage from the film along with the cast and crew talking about their characters and the story.
The story unfolds in a near future in which a hive-like alien race, called Mimics, have hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, shredding great cities to rubble and leaving millions of human casualties in their wake. No army in the world can match the speed, brutality or seeming prescience of the weaponized Mimic fighters or their telepathic commanders. But now the world’s armies have joined forces for a last stand offensive against the alien horde, with no second chances. Lt. Col. Bill Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and then dropped—untrained and ill-equipped—into what amounts to little more than a suicide mission. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an Alpha down with him. But, impossibly, he awakens back at the beginning of the same hellish day, and is forced to fight and die again…and again. Direct physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop—dooming him to live out the same brutal combat over and over. But with each pass, Cage becomes tougher, smarter, and able to engage the Mimics with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt), who has lain waste to more Mimics than anyone on Earth. As Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated battle becomes an opportunity to find the key to annihilating the alien invaders and saving the Earth.
The Doug Liman-directed film comes out on June 6th, and it looks like it's one of those movies that you have to watch on the big screen.