A couple of months ago, Emily Blunt opened up about the long-awaited Edge of Tomorrow sequel saying the script wouldn’t work today. Well, she was recently asked about it again during an interview with the Happy Sad Confused podcast, and now she’s saying that it could be good, but thinks they’d need to rework what they have. She explained:
“It could be good. I think when we first talked about a sequel it was right before I was about to do Mary Poppins so it was quite awhile ago. I think if we were going to do one, we would have to reimagine what the sequel would look like.”
With Tom Cruise now partnered up with Warner Bros. there is a real chance that this sequel could actually happen. But, as of right now, no projects have been announced.
Matthew Robinson (The Invention Of Lying) pitched a take on the story that the studio loved, and he wrote the initial draft of the script. Liman previously said that he likes the story for the sequel more than the first film and explained that it would revolutionize how people make sequels. He also said, “we’re gonna make it if we really believe in it. We have a story that the three of us love, so we’re working hard on the script.”
The story for the sequel picks up right where the last film left off, but then it will go backward in time. The director previously offered details in a previous interview, saying: “I think what people tend to do with sequels is they just make them bigger. And I’m like, ‘No, a sequel should be smaller.’ You did the first film as sort of the ad campaign for the sequel, so now you don’t need as much action, and in the case of Edge of Tomorrow, people obviously loved the comedy and they loved the situation… so we can do way more focus on Tom’s character and Emily Blunt’s character, and there’s a third character in the sequel that’s gonna for sure steal the movie. We can focus on that. I don’t need an action sequence every two minutes.”
He went on to say: “It’s mostly not on the battlefield, so there’s a whole new arena of fights we’re going to do using a lot of the technology, but also, because it is a prequel, it’s a lot of the precursor stuff. I’m really interested in the details of that … Like batteries, do they run out on these suits? I mean, they must have batteries. Or he gets stuck with the menu in the wrong language, just the reality of that menu stuck in the wrong language when you’re in the middle of a battlefield and aliens are all around you and you gotta get the suit working again, that detail gives you drama and excitement. And humor. In the sequel, I’m creating an environment where I get to have even more of those details.”
Blunt also previously talked about the script and said, “It’s really promising and really, really cool. I just don’t know when everything’s going to sort of align, you know what I mean? Between all of our schedules, it would just have to be the right time. But there is something in the works, for sure, that’s a great idea. A great idea.”
I would love nothing more than for this sequel to happen!
