Emily Blunt Says EDGE OF TOMORROW 2 May Never Get Made Because It'd Be Too Expensive
Before the pandemic hit there was some real movement on Edge of Tomorrow 2. Doug Liman, Christopher McQuarrie, and Tom Cruise had been working on a sequel to the sci-fi action film for years, and a script was completed. Liman was looking to start shooting the movie after he was finished with the next two Mission: Impossible films.
Emily Blunt read the script that had been written and previously said, “It’s really promising and really, really cool. I just don’t know when everything’s going to sort of align, you know what I mean? Between all of our schedules, it would just have to be the right time. But there is something in the works, for sure, that’s a great idea. A great idea.”
Well, now the actress isn’t so sure the movie will get made. While speaking on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM show, Stern asked if Blunt wanted to make Edge of Tomorrow 2. This was her response:
“We wanted to. Honestly, I think the movie is probably too expensive. Yeah, I just don’t know how we’re going to do it. I think that it’s hard to align everyone’s schedules. I would love it. Doug Liman would love it. Tom would love it. We’d all love to do it. But I think until we figure out what’s going on with the industry – honestly, I think we need to figure out what is the next road map for the kinds of films that people want to make?”
Well, shit. That’s a bummer to hear. I hope that they end up getting to make it! I loved the first movie, and I’ve been wanting to see the sequel that the creative team has cooked up!
Matthew Robinson (The Invention Of Lying) pitched the concept on the story for the sequel to the studio, and they loved it, and he was hired to write the script.
Liman previously said that he likes the story for the sequel more than the first film and explained that it would revolutionize how people make sequels. He also said, “We’re gonna make it if we really believe in it. We have a story that the three of us love, so we’re working hard on the script."
I guess now they just have to work hard on getting the studio to fund it. As far as the story goes, it was said that it would pick up right where the last film left off, but then it will go backward in time. The director offered the additional details in a previous interview, saying:
“I think what people tend to do with sequels is they just make them bigger. And I’m like, ‘No, a sequel should be smaller.’ You did the first film as sort of the ad campaign for the sequel, so now you don’t need as much action, and in the case of Edge of Tomorrow, people obviously loved the comedy and they loved the situation… so we can do way more focus on Tom’s character and Emily Blunt’s character, and there’s a third character in the sequel that’s gonna for sure steal the movie. We can focus on that. I don’t need an action sequence every two minutes.
“It’s mostly not on the battlefield, so there’s a whole new arena of fights we’re going to do using a lot of the technology, but also, because it is a prequel, it’s a lot of the precursor stuff. I’m really interested in the details of that … Like batteries, do they run out on these suits? I mean, they must have batteries. Or he gets stuck with the menu in the wrong language, just the reality of that menu stuck in the wrong language when you’re in the middle of a battlefield and aliens are all around you and you gotta get the suit working again, that detail gives you drama and excitement. And humor. In the sequel, I’m creating an environment where I get to have even more of those details.”
I hope they can figure things out and get this sequel made because I want to see this movie!