Edge Of Tomorrow 2 Gets Exciting Update From Tom Cruise Movie Director After Years Of Stalls (2024)

Following years of languishing in development hell, Doug Liman offers an encouraging update on Edge of Tomorrow 2. Liman previously teamed with Tom Cruise for the 2014 adaptation of the Japanese novel All You Need Is Kill, in which Cruise starred as a military public affairs officer who becomes stuck in a time loop in a future in which aliens have invaded Earth and are slowly winning the war against humanity, but uses the looping to find a way to beat them. Though garnering rave reviews from critics, Edge of Tomorrow was only viewed a modest box office hit, which has partly complicated sequel plans.

Now, during an interview with Total Film for his upcoming action-comedy The Instigators, Liman was asked about the long journey to making Edge of Tomorrow 2. Though not indicating where in the development process the sci-fi sequel might be, he did assure that Warner Bros. is "constantly" asking about when it will happen, making for an exciting update on the follow-up. Check out what Liman shared below:

I do think there's probably no better compliment to a movie than people wanting for there to be a sequel. Road House - there's call for a sequel. Edge of Tomorrow, there's no better compliment than Warner Bros. constantly bringing up, “Will you go and make another one of these?”

Edge Of Tomorrow 2 Might Finally Happen Thanks To 1 Development

Development on Edge of Tomorrow 2 has been a rocky road for the past decade, with various starts and stops throughout the years. Cruise, Liman and co-writer and frequent Cruise collaborator Christopher McQuarrie have reiterated that they have the story idea ready for the sequel, which is said to be a "sequel that's a prequel". However, the writing team has changed a number of times, beginning with Snake Eyes duo Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse, before Love and Monsters co-writer Matthew Robinson was brought on in 2019 to rewrite the screenplay, which was finished in October of that year.

The biggest hurdle for Edge of Tomorrow 2 to get off the ground thus far has proven to be both the financial logistics and busy schedules of Cruise and co-star Emily Blunt in making the sequel. The original movie wasn't a box office failure, though its gross of $370.5 million against its $178 million production budget seemingly left WB cautious. Additionally, Cruise and Blunt remain in high demand for a variety of projects, including the former's Mission: Impossible franchise, which is currently filming its eighth movie, and the latter having been busy with the Quiet Place movies, her Oscar-nominated turn in Oppenheimer and the Ryan Gosling co-starring The Fall Guy.

Aside from Liman's encouraging update on the sequel, though, Edge of Tomorrow 2 might just finally happen thanks to Cruise's recent partnership deal with Warner Bros. Discovery and his production banner, TC Productions. Early reports indicated that the sci-fi sequel was expected to be a main point of discussion between the two shortly after the deal was signed. Though nothing more concrete has come out since, Cruise already has lined up another starring project with the studio in a new film helmed by The Revenant's Alejandro G. Iñárritu, indicating a positive future for Cruise at WB that could lead to Edge of Tomorrow 2.

Source: Total Film