The
Edge of Tomorrow sequel will reportedly be titled Live Die Repeat and Repeat and director Doug Liman appears to be very enthusiastic about the project. “
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."
That's actually refreshing to hear as many Hollywood blockbusters tend to think a sequel should be "bigger, faster and louder." But those sentiments don't exactly answer a question that a lot of fans of
Edge of Tomorrow have, which is what's left to explore when the ending appeared to have tied-up all the loose ends? Liman remained vague, providing a single cryptic clue on that topic but did add that there won't be a third entry in the series.
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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.”
With the Mimics seemingly destroyed, and Tom Cruise's character robbed of his time-traveling abilities it's hard to figure out what route the film will take to restore his or Emily Blunt's time traversing powers. Perhaps it's this mysterious third character who will possess these abilities?
About Edge of Tomorrow
Edge of Tomorrow is a 2014 American sci-fi military film based on the 2004 light novel from Hiroshi Sakurazaka and Yoshitoshi ABe. A manga adaptation, written by Ryōsuke Takeuchi and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, was published in Weekly Shonen Jump from January to May 2014. An English language translation was published by Viz Media in North America in May 2014.
The film follows Major William Cage and a legendary Special Forces Officer who form an unlikely partnership to stop invading aliens called Mimics, who inexplicably predict every move the Earth's United Defense Force makes. Through chance, Cage gains the ability to travel back in time, each time he dies. Through this ability Cage tests several methods and strategies to defeat the Mimics once and for all.