Edge of Tomorrow 2: Done With Script, Waiting For Cruise's Vacant Time Slot To Begin Filming

Tom Cruise’s Edge of Tomorrow came out of nowhere and thrilled the audience with its unique and intriguing plot. Also, Warner Bros. greenlit the movie for its second run, Edge of Tomorrow 2. The sequel is also in works from some time. Meanwhile, some recent news came in regarding the sophomore run of the fantastic sci-fi drama, let’s have a look.
The movie is based on a screenplay adapted from the 2004 Japanese light novel, All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. Edge of Tomorrow follows Major William Cage (Cruise), a public relations officer with no combat experience. The film takes place in the future where an alien race invades most of Europe. There, he was forced by his seniors to fight, and while fighting in the battle, he dies. Though Cage got killed, he finds himself in a time loop that puts him back to the day prior the battle every time he dies, with some memory of events. Later, he teams up with Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt) to defeat the extraterrestrial invaders.
The debut movie starring iconic Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt spread by its marketing tagline, Live. Die. Repeat. Meanwhile, the sequel of Edge of Tomorrow is titled as Live Die Repeat and Repeat. Edge of Tomorrow premiered in May 2014 and came out as a financial success. The movie received mostly positive reviews from critics and was a box office success too, grossing over $370.5 million worldwide. The film also received appreciation for its different plot and humor.

Script for Edge of Tomorrow 2 Completed

Director Doug Liman recently made a big revelation related to the upcoming sequel of Edge of Tomorrow. As he said in the interview with CBM, the writing work for Edge of Tomorrow has been completed. Also, they are just waiting for the lead, Tom Cruise’s schedule. And according to that, the filming work for the sequel will begin. Also, the schedule needs to match with the another co-star of the movie, Emily Blunt.
As of now, Cruise is busy working on his globally acclaimed Mission Impossible sequels. Yes, the star is working on two back to back movies with writer-director Christopher McQuarrie. And as we all know, how many levels of dedication Cruise provide in his MI movies. In MI4, he climbed at Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE, in MI5 he climbed at the gate of the airplane, and in MI6, he learned to fly an actual helicopter. Therefore, the audience needs to wait so that Cruise first completes his mission movies, then go for the ambitious sci-fi movie sequel.

Liman also discussed the script of Edge of Tomorrow. As he stated, “It’s always about the script. Getting a great script is so hard, especially or an action script because – and especially for the movies I want to make – but I wan to be completely original and yet still be commercially satisfying and usually the commercially satisfying ideas are things that people had seen before, like if someone already discovered that and that’s why it shows up in movie after movie”.

Edge Of Tomorrow 2: Release Date

Even the filming schedule for the Edge of Tomorrow sequel has not been slated for now. Also, Tom Cruise tends to shoot one project per year, so this would suggest that the Edge of Tomorrow sequel might not begin filming until 2021 if the two Mission: Impossible sequels will shoot back-to-back in 2020. Therefore, the audience needs to wait for long for the eye-wrenching sci-fi movie starring Tom Cruise to return.