'Edge of Tomorrow:' Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt played soldiers in a war against an alien race, the Mimics
Tom Cruise earned praises for his performance in 2014 release action-packed sci-fi film Edge of Tomorrow.
However, no sequel of the thriller action flick has ever made it to the boards and the reason behind it has left fans shocked.
Film series’ screenwriter, Christopher McQuarrie, has addressed
the fate of the fabled Edge of Tomorrow 2 – later known as Live. Die.
Repeat.
McQuarrie, who has collaborated with Cruise on several
hit projects, was asked about the sequel by a fan on Twitter, “my wife had
never seen Edge of Tomorrow, so we watched it together on Monday. Now she
gets why I love it so much. Are there more stories you want to tell in that
universe, or is the time loop broken once and for all?”
The Mission Impossible director candidly replied, “There was an
idea for another one. Not quite a sequel or prequel. An equal? Alas, for
various reasons it never came together.”
Emily Blunt, who played
Sergeant Rita Vrataski and Cruise’s love interest in the 2014 film,
previously told Howard Stern that the sequel may have been “too expensive”
to make
She was asked if she would consider returning to her
character, she replied: “We wanted to!”
“Honestly, I think the
movie’s too expensive,” Blunt confessed. “I just don’t know how we’re going
to do it.”
“I would love it,” she went on. “[Director] Doug Liman
would love it, Tom would love it – we’d all love to do it. But until we
figure out what’s going on with the industry… we need to figure out what is
the next road map for the kinds of films people want to make.”
At the moment, Cruise is busy filming Mission: Impossible –
Dead Reckoning Part Two, which is scheduled for 2024 release.
Mission:
Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is due to hit cinemas on July 14.
