Emily Blunt would still like to make the EDGE OF TOMORROW sequel

Fans wanted to see a sequel to the 2014 film Edge of tomorrow for a long time. We learned a few years ago that a script had been completed and that director Douglas Liman I was hoping to shoot it later Mission: Impossible 8i.e. when Christopher McCarrie AND Tom Cruise will be available again. But it’s been a while since there have been any updates on the project.

Well, during a recent interview with Deadline, Emily Blunt offered a quick update by saying, “Well, I’d like to do another one. I don’t know when and I don’t know how, but I would like to. I don’t know if my back could take it.

Matthew Robinson (The invention of the lie) pitched a version of the story the studio apparently loved, and wrote the initial draft of the script. Liman previously said he liked the story of the sequel more than the first film and explained that he would revolutionize the way people make sequels. He also said: “we will succeed if we really believe in it. We have a story that the three of us love, so we’re working hard on the script.”

As for the story, it was said that it would pick up right where the last film left off, but then go back in time. The director previously offered details in an earlier interview, saying:

“I think what people tend to do with sequels is just make them bigger. And I’m like, ‘No, a sequel should be smaller.’ You made the first film as sort of hype 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 much more attention to Tom’s character and Emily Blunt’s character, and there’s a third character in the sequel who is sure to steal the film. 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 fighting that we’re going to do using a lot of technology, but also, because it’s a prequel, there’s a lot of precursor stuff. I’m really interested in the details of this… Like the batteries, these suits run out? I mean, they must have batteries. Or it 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 have to get the suit working again, that detail will it gives drama and excitement. And humour. In the sequel, I create an environment where I get to have even more of that detail.”

Blunt has also previously spoken about the script and said, “It’s really promising and really, really good. I just don’t know when everything will line up, you know what I mean? Out of all our schedules, it should just be the right time. But there’s something in the works, for sure, it’s a great idea. A great idea.”

When asked a couple of years ago if she wanted to do the film, she said, “We wanted to do it. Honestly, I think the movie is probably too expensive. Yeah, I just don’t know how we’re going to do it. I think it’s hard to align everyone’s schedules. I would like. Doug Liman would love that. Tom would love it. We all would like to do that. But I think until we figure out what’s going on with the industry — honestly, I think we need to figure out what’s the next road map for the kinds of movies people want to make?

Hopefully they all get to make the movie! This is a movie that fans would love to actually see happen. That first movie was so good, and if they have an even better story… they have to!