EDGE OF TOMORROW
Oscar®
nominee Tom Cruise (the “Mission: Impossible”
films, “Collateral,” “Jerry Maguire”) and Emily Blunt (“The Devil Wears Prada,” “The Adjustment
Bureau”) star in the epic sci-fi thriller “Edge
of Tomorrow,” under the direction of Doug Liman (“The Bourne Identity,”
“Mr. & Mrs. Smith”).
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.
The international cast also includes
Bill Paxton (“Aliens,” HBO’s “Big Love”), Kick Gurry (Australian TV’s
“Tangle”), Dragomir Mrsic (“Snabba Cash II”), Charlotte Riley (“World Without
End”), Jonas Armstrong (BBC TV’s
“Robin Hood”), and Franz Drameh (“Attack the Block”).
Liman is directing the film from a
screenplay by Dante Harper, Christopher McQuarrie and Joby Harold, based on the
acclaimed novel All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka.
Erwin Stoff (“The Blind Side,” “I Am
Legend”), Gregory Jacobs (“Contagion”) and Jeffrey Silver (“300”) are the
producers. The executive producers are
Jason Hoffs, Tom Lassally, Doug Liman, Dave Bartis, Joby Harold, Hidemi
Fukuhara, and Bruce Berman, with Kim Winther and Tim Lewis serving as
co-producers.
The behind-the-scenes team includes Academy
Award®-winning director of photography Dion Beebe (“Memoirs of a
Geisha”), production designer Oliver Scholl (“Jumper,” “Independence Day”), editor
James Herbert (“Sherlock Holmes,” “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows”),
costume designer Kate Hawley (upcoming “Pacific Rim ”),
and Oscar®-nominated visual effects supervisor Nick Davis (“The Dark
Knight”).
“Edge of Tomorrow”
is the first motion picture to be shot at the recently christened Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden.
Slated
to open
