Edge of Tomorrow 2 Script is Done; Scheduling is the Next Issue

Edge of Tomorrow

The book for Doug Liman’sLive Die Repeat and Repeatis complete , and the only issue now is scheduling . Liman had antecedently worked alongside screenwriters Christopher McQuarrie , Jez Butterworth , and John - Henry Butterworth to bring Hiroshi Sakurazaka ’s Japanese light novelAll You involve Is Killto life on the big screen in 2014 . Although the film , titledEdge of Tomorrow , was n’t quite the box office achiever that they wanted it to be , the adoring answer from audiences and critic alikewas convincing enough for them to pursue a continuation .

alas , since McQuarrie is presently preoccupy with filmingMission : unsufferable 6 , he was n’t able to compose the sequel ’s screenplay . However , under his supervision , Racescribes Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse were able to come up with an unconventional sequel that will not onlymake sense of the first film ’s endingbut alsochange the means the industry make subsequence altogether . Tom Cruise and Emily Bluntare both confirmed to reprize their rolesas Major William Cage and Sergeant Rita Vrataski , severally , for the sequel , but the only payoff now is getting their schedule to concur .

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Liman has been busy push his latest film , American Made , and in an interview withCollider , the director confirmed that the script forLive give out Repeat and Repeathas been turned in . Now , the only affair preventing them from getting the ball rolling is Cruise and Blunt ’s schedules .

“ Tom and Emily and I are really excited to go do it . We have a script . We ’re just trying to bump a time to schedule it , between my schedule and Emily ’s and Tom ’s . But it ’s one of these thing where it ’s a continuation whose origins come from the best potential place , which is , it ’s not a studio saying , ‘ Hey , we suppose we can make some more money . Let ’s just stump out another one . ’ This sequel originated with fans of the original film who continually came up to Tom and myself and Emily and told us how much they love the pic and would we ever consider a sequel . And enough people said that to me and to Tom and to Emily that we finally sat down and enounce , ‘ What would a subsequence even look like ? ’ We ended up with Chris McQuarrie come up with a great tale . ”

From the get - go , Liman has press out that the subsequence is more of a passion project for everyone involved and not just a movie that they all expect to get rich off of . Again , that ’s due to how fans reacted toEdge of Tomorrow . Of course , now that the handwriting has been finished , they need to calculate out the best time in which they can all take the sequel . Cruise is currently film the nextMission : Impossiblesequel , and once that ’s finished , he will be gearing up to start filmingTop Gun : Maverick . Blunt , on the other hand , withMary Poppins Returnsin post - output , she has begin filmingSherlock GnomesandA Quiet Place . Then , of course , there ’s getting Liman ’s docket to get together . He has no dearth of task on his scale , withChaos Walkingbeing the immediate business concern .

programming issuing areone of the primary reasons why projects do n’t end up happeningin Hollywood , but considering that they ’re all committed to makingLive give out Repeat and Repeatwork , it ’s dependable to say that the motion picture will end up happen at some point . Hopefully , we do n’t have to wait too long , though .