Emily Blunt Says The Script For EDGE OF TOMORROW 2 is "Really Promising and Really Cool"
Doug Liman, Christopher McQuarrie, and Tom Cruise have been working on a sequel to the sci-fi action film Edge of Tomorrow for years and it’s moving forward. The script has been written and Liman is looking to start shooting it after the next two Mission: Impossible films complete shooting.
The sequel is in development under the title of Live, Die, Repeat and Repeat, and the last thing we heard was that the script is ready. Well, it turns out Emily Blunt has read this script and while speaking to THR about it, she 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.”
Matthew Robinson (The Invention Of Lying) is the guy who pitched the take on the story for the sequel to the studio and they obviously 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."
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."
He went on to say:
“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 know we’ve got a long time before we see this sequel get made, but I’m excited to see what the story entails!