He’s got another film with Tom Cruise due in cinemas called American Made before a sequel to Edge Of Tomorrow 2 – or indeed Live Die Repeat and Repeat as it is currently being referred to – hits cinemas, but Doug Liman has has offered up some new information on the planned actioner.
The filmmaker spoke with Happy Sad Confused and confirmed that the film, which will also see the return of Emily Blunt, will have a more comedic tone and smaller scope. It also sounds like it will be a sequel and prequel.
“It’s mostly not on the battlefield, so there’s a whole new arena of fights we’re going to be using a lot of the technology, but also, because it is a prequel, it’s a lot of the precursor stuff,” Liman said.
“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.”
“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,” the filmmaker added.
There are no further details on when the film is expected in cinemas, but with Cruise shooting Mission: Impossible 6 and then a rumoured Top Gun sequel rumoured to film immediately afterwards, we’d expect a release to be at least a couple of years away.
