Until recently, Doug Liman’s Edge of Tomorrow went by the title All You Need Is Kill. But when Warner Bros. took the film to Comic-Con over the weekend, it went with a brand new name, and reports have audiences in San Diego very impressed by what they saw.
And if Comic-Con-goers are impressed when it comes to the likes of sci-fi, that’s definitely a good sign.
In the past few days, we’ve seen two very awesome teaser posters for Edge of Tomorrow from Comic-Con, with the second teaser giving us a look at Emily Blunt in her mech suit. And now Warner Bros. have released the character poster for Tom Cruise, suited up as Lt. Col. Bill Cage.
The story unfolds in a near future in which a hive-like alien race, called Mimics, have hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, shredding great cities to rubble and leaving millions of human casualties in their wake. No army in the world can match the speed, brutality or seeming prescience of the weaponized Mimic fighters or their telepathic commanders. But now the world’s armies have joined forces for a last stand offensive against the alien horde, with no second chances.
Lt. Col. Bill Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and then dropped—untrained and ill-equipped—into what amounts to little more than a suicide mission. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an Alpha down with him. But, impossibly, he awakens back at the beginning of the same hellish day, and is forced to fight and die again…and again. Direct physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop—dooming him to live out the same brutal combat over and over.
But with each pass, Cage becomes tougher, smarter, and able to engage the Mimics with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt), who has lain waste to more Mimics than anyone on Earth. As Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated battle becomes an opportunity to find the key to annihilating the alien invaders and saving the Earth.
Starring alongside the leading duo of Cruise and Blunt will be Bill Paxton, Charlotte Riley, Jonas Armstrong, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste.
Liman (The Bourne Identity, Jumper) is at the helm, directing from a script penned by Dante Harper (Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters), based on the original graphic novel, All You Need Is Kill, by Hiroshi Sakurazaka.
Edge of Tomorrow is set to be released in 3D and IMAX 3D on June 6th, 2014, and the early signs are clearly pointing to an epic blockbuster to look forward to next year.
