New Character To Join Cruise And Blunt In Live, Die, Repeat And Repeat

While the sequel was only just revealed, we are already learning quite a bit about the movie and the direction that the follow-up to Edge of Tomorrow is going to take.  Director Doug Liman sat down the other day for an interview with MTV HSC Podcast to discuss the upcoming film:


“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 talk about the future of the "franchise":


“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.”


That's an interesting take on a "franchise".  A two movie series that neatly bookends the entire story.  As far as when the movie will start production, it's too soon to tell.  Right now Cruise is busy working on Mission: Impossible 6, but it sounds like the project is at the top of the list of things Cruise wants to do.  As soon as I find out more, I'll let you know.