Edge of Tomorrow
Director: Doug Liman
Screenwriters: Christopher McQuarrie, Jez and John-Henry Butterworth
Cast: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, Brendan Gleeson
Warner Bros. Pictures
Rated PG-13 | 113 Minutes
Release Date: June 6, 2013

Live. Die. Repeat.

Directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity), Edge of Tomorrow is an ambitious science-fiction film that also serves as an entertaining thesis on electronic gaming and its symbiotic relationship with modern filmmaking.

Based on the novel All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, the film takes place in the near future where an alien race – the Mimics – has invaded the Earth and overtaken most of Western Europe. The Mimics can anticipate and counter our combat strategies with ease, making them unstoppable. To stand a chance against them, we create battle suits – armored exoskeletons reminiscent of the Power Loader from Aliens or the hydraulic battle chassis from The Matrix Trilogy.

A new trailer for Edge of Tomorrow, the futuristic action flick starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, has been released by Warner Brothers. We saw the first trailer released back in December.

In the movie, Cruise plays a man with no combat experience who is thrown into the middle of a war between humans and aliens and is killed almost immediately. But instead of staying dead, he finds himself stuck in a mysterious time loop, replaying the last moments of his life over and over and over again. With each replay he learns and improves his skills and his strategies, allowing him to gradually improve his chances of defeating the alien threat.

You can check out the new trailer for the movie below.

First person shooters gives players the opportunity to respawn after they have been killed by another player. So it was only a matter of time before that concept was turned into a movie. In Edge Of Tomorrow, the new movie from Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith), Tom Cruise plays as a soldier with no formal training batting against aliens known as Mimics. The only problem is that he keeps on dying, and then gets revived the next day. Think of it as a intense and gritty version of Groundhog Day, without the humor. Emily Blunt also stars as a fellow soldier who is aware of their precarious situation and helps train Cruise to battle the aliens.

Warner Brothers has released the first trailer for the film, which you can watch below.

Another year at San Diego Comic-con, another Tom Cruise epic sci-fi thriller. Following his role in this year’s Oblivion, Tom Cruise stars in the upcoming Edge of Tomorrow, this time for director Doug Liman (Bourne Identity), who brought the panel to Hall H on Saturday. Stars Cruise and Emily Blunt led the panel, along with director Liman, writer Chris McQuarrie, and producer Ewrin Stoff. The Legendary panel was moderated by Chris Hardwick.

Cruise and Blunt strolled to the stage to roars of cheers from the crowd. Cruise mentioned to Hardwick that they have something in common, having both played the character of Stacee Jax in different productions of Rock of Ages (this led to a mini sing-off between the two on Foreigner’s “I Want To Know What Love Is,” which features in Rock Of Ages). Not surprising, Hardwick went all fanboy, but in a highly humorous way that entertained the audience greatly (the obligatory post-panel photo session saw Hardwick and Cruise photobombing each other).