Tom Cruise may be on the edge of getting Edge Of Tomorrow 2 greenlit
Director Doug Liman said recently that he and Cruise still “love that world”
Tom Cruise seems to want to go back in time to 2014 or so, when Edge Of Tomorrow was the new hot thing and could effortlessly earn a sequel (or three). That technology hasn’t been invented yet, but Cruise is now doing the next best thing: throwing his savior-of-movies powers behind getting a sequel greenlit in the current timeline.
In an interview with Empire magazine, director Doug Liman assured fans that the long-gestating follow-up to his extraterrestrial favorite isn’t totally out of orbit. The 2014 film, which follows characters played by Cruise and Emily Blunt as they harness the power of time travel to take down a species of alien monsters, did just okay at the box office but has found more life and fans in the decade since. A couple iterations of a sequel—given the title Live Die Repeat And Repeat—were announced, but nothing ever came to fruition.
That isn’t stopping Cruise, though. (When does anything, ever?) Or Liman, for that matter. “We keep talking about it,” the director said of his and Cruise’s plans for the franchise. “We love that world.” Time is, fittingly, no object either. “I don’t know how long Cameron took his Terminators… but at the time it felt like a long time,” Liman added. As Empire points out, the director said back in 2016 that Edge Of Tomorrow 2 was going to “revolutionise how people make sequels,” so they’ve definitely given themselves some room to play around. Maybe if this does happen they’ll take a Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp-style approach and never address the fact that all the actors are older, even though the film is set earlier than the first. It’s all a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey-wimey stuff, baby!
Cruise and Liman aren’t the only ones who are down to Live Die Repeat And Repeat… and repeat. On a 2023 episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Cruise’s co-star Blunt said she was also “so ready” for a sequel, adding, “I would love to make it a reality but I just don’t know when or how.” “And how many Mission Impossibles does he need?” she also joked. “Come back to the side where… wasn’t he brilliant as a cowardly hero? Incredible.”
If nothing else, Edge Of Tomorrow’s recent 10-year anniversary gave Liman a sweet excuse to appreciate his own efforts. “Tom and I just actually rewatched it about two months ago, because I hadn’t seen it in 10 years,” he said. “I was like, ‘Wow, that is a really good movie.’” Hopefully, potential investors agree.