Starring Tom Cruise in the lead, the feature adaptation of All You Need Is Kill is all but guaranteed to be a big success when it hits the big screen in Spring 2014, and with good reason.
Cruise is an all-out action star that consistently delivers, and his blockbusters are almost always some of the biggest and best of the year, and with Emily Blunt starring opposite him in the female lead, there’s a lot to look forward to.
With filming currently underway here in the UK, the first image of Cruise in the lead has surfaced online, and whilst it’s not hi-res like we like, it’s a pretty awesome first look all the same.
“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 Cruise and Blunt will be Bill Paxton, Charlotte Riley, and Jonas Armstrong.
Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) is at the helm, directing from a script by Dante Harper (Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters) and Joby Harold (Awake), adapting the original graphic novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka.
All You Need Is Kill is currently slated for a 14th March, 2014 release in the UK and US, and I can’t wait to see how this turns out. Smart money says it’s going to be one of the biggest films of 2014. For now, here’s the first look at Cruise in the lead.
Source: SanSpo.
