UPDATE: Doug Liman tells Empire magazine that he and Tom Cruise are still discussing about potentially making the sequel.
“We keep talking about it,” Liman said of his and Cruise’s plans for the franchise. “We love that world.” Time is, fittingly, no object either. “I don’t know how long Cameron took his Terminators… but at the time it felt like a long time,” Liman added.
The film’s recent 10-year anniversary gave Liman and Cruise a reason to revisit their sci-fi classic. “Tom and I just actually rewatched it about two months ago, because I hadn’t seen it in 10 years,” he said. “I was like, ‘Wow, that is a really good movie.’”
If they so desperately want to make sequel then what’s stopping them? If I had to bet, it probably has to do with Cruise’s busy schedule. He’s been filming ‘Mission: Impossible 8’ for well over a year now and is set to shoot upcoming projects with directors Christopher McQuarrie (“The Gauntlet”) and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Liman might have to wait a little longer.
EARLIER: Back in January, Tom Cruise signed a new deal with Warner Bros that would allow him to produce and star in movies for WB.
Now, what films could Cruise possibly tackle over at Warner Bros? Sources say the Warner deal includes a greenlight on a yet to be identified project, maybe a thriller or an action movie. My best guess is that it could be the much-rumored remake of “The Gauntlet.” There’s also that recently announce film that Cruise will doing with filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
However, what Warner CEO David Zaslav seems to want most is lure back Cruise for a follow-up to Doug Liman’s 2014 film “Edge of Tomorrow”, which the studio has had “in development” for quite a number of years.
"I do think there’s probably no better compliment to a movie than people wanting for there to be a sequel," Liman tells Total Film. “There’s no better compliment than Warner Bros. constantly bringing up, 'Will you go and make another one of these?'"
However, if a sequel does go ahead as planned, it sounds like it might be very different to the original since, as Liman attests, his filmmaking style has changed over the years.
Tom and I recently rewatched The Edge Of Tomorrow together… I had not watched it since it came out. And I have a very short attention span and memory. I wasn’t able to watch it entirely as a viewer, but I was definitely also not the filmmaker anymore.
“Edge of Tomorrow” is the only potential Cruise IP that Warner Bros currently owns. Last August, Emily Blunt had confirmed that the script for the sequel was done and that she was ready to film it.
The film only earned $375 million at the global box-office, on a $175 million budget, but audiences eventually caught on to the film when it hit home video, as it captured a large fan base and has become a sci-fi classic.
Liman had previously stated that the “Edge of Tomorrow” sequel would “revolutionize how people make sequels” and that the film would be titled “Live Die Repeat and Repeat.” Cruise’s buddy Christopher McQuarrie (“The Usual Suspects,” “Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation“) is writing the screenplay.