Title For Sequel To "Edge Of Tomorrow" Revealed

Even though the movie Edge of Tomorrow didn't do "great" in the theaters (it doubled it's production cost, which means it basically broke even), it's gained quite a following ever since it was released on DVD and Blu-Ray.  One of the reasons some critics think that the movie did poorly was because of it's name, so when it was released on DVD, they used the movie's actual title as a "secondary title," and instead used Live, Die, Repeat on the front of the cover.  


Since the movie's spike in popularity once it was released on DVD, rumors started to swirl about a sequel being made.  That got fans excited (at least, for everyone that actually saw the movie!) and this past weekend we learned that there will in fact be a sequel.  It's title?  Live, Die, Repeat and Repeat.  Like Matt Wood wrote over at Cinemablend.com, at least they didn't call it On The Edge of The Edge of Tomorrow!  (Good one, Matt!)  When it was revealed, director Doug Liman had this to say about the upcoming project:


"We have an amazing story! It's incredible! Way better than the first film, and I obviously loved the first film. It will be called Live Die Repeat and Repeat. Tom [Cruise] is excited about it, and Emily Blunt is excited about it. The big question is just when we'll do it. But it's not an if, it's a when."


Liman has also said that the movie is "a sequel that is a prequel," whatever that means.  He went on:


“I had these intellectual ideas on how you should make a sequel that are unlike how anybody else makes a sequel, and this script and this idea fit perfectly into that idea.  So it’s gonna revolutionize how people make sequels. And again that’s why I try to do things like Invisible that are just, the revolution’s sort of built into the idea. It’s more heresy in the film world for me to pitch things that are sort of unheard of.”


Yep.  That cleared it up.  Clear as mud.  This still doesn't take away from the fact that we will be getting a sequel to a truly great science-fiction movie.  The reason I enjoyed it so much was because one, it was original, and two, it was a stand alone film...well, until recently anyway.  If they weren't able to make a sequel, it could stand up on it's own.  The movie was based off of Hiroshi Sakurazaka's "Japanese military science-fiction light novel" All You Need Is Kill, but it sounds like that the sequel will be more of an original story rather than being adopted from other sources.


No word on when the movie will start filming or when it will be released, but as soon as I hear anything, I'll let you all know.