New Details For EDGE OF TOMORROW 2 Emerge and There's a New Character Who Will "Steal The Movie"
One future film project that I'm really excited about is director Doug Liman and Tom Cruise's sequel to Edge of Tomorrow. It was recently revealed that the film would be called Live Die Repeat and Repeat. We've heard that the story the creative team has come up with for the sequel is amazing and that it will be better than the first film. It was also explained that the film would revolutionize how sequels are made, which I found incredibly interesting.
Today we have some new details to share with you that come from the director himself. The following information came from an interview with Liman while he was a guest on MTV's Happy Sad Confused podcast. One of the first things he talks about is making the sequel smaller and that there's a new character, who will "steal the movie."
“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 goes on to reveal that this sequel will complete the story that was started in the first movie. He also explains where the story picks up in the sequel saying:
“I see this as a two-movie franchise; there’s the completion of the story we set up in the first movie and the relationships between Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt—because, remember, at the end of the first movie, she doesn’t know who he is—and that’s gonna launch us into an amazing new direction.
It does pick up right where we left off, but it doesn’t keep going forward because we’d screw with time because the aliens screwed with time.”
Liman goes on to tease some of the action we'll see this time around and how it won't be set on a battlefield and he explains how he is going to play with the details of the environment they are creating:
“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.”
The more I hear about this sequel the more excited I get! I'm excited to see what exactly Liman is talking about here and how all of this plays out in the movie. I'm just bummed out that Bill Paxton won't be in it. He was definitely one of the characters that stole every scene he was in in the first movie.
Via: Collider