Emily Blunt To Return To ‘Edge of Tomorrow 2’; Title Revealed!

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What’s in a name? Well, Edge of Tomorrow 2 is coming, and anyone who followed the saga of the original film knows that the title is kind of a big deal.

The name of the original film, Edge of Tomorrow, was changed after it didn’t perform well in theaters. As it headed to DVDs, the new title became Live Die Repeat. As a result, the second installment will be called, Live Die Repeat and Repeat.

Director Doug Liman told Collider that the original stars, Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, are set to return, and screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie is on board as well. He said:

“We have an amazing story! It’s incredible! Way better than the first film, and I obviously loved the first film. It will be called Live Die Repeat and Repeat. Tom [Cruise] is excited about it, and Emily Blunt is excited about it. The big question is just when we’ll do it. But it’s not an if, it’s a when.”

Doug also revealed that the sequel is actually a prequel. He explained:

“I’ve had some radical ideas about how to make a sequel that would interest me, in the same way that I had ideas of how you make an independent film and then Swingers came along and it was like ‘Aha, that’s the perfect movie for me to test these ideas out on.’ I had these intellectual ideas on how you should make a sequel that are unlike how anybody else makes a sequel, and this script and this idea fit perfectly into that idea. So it’s gonna revolutionize how people make sequels. And again that’s why I try to do things like Invisible that are just, the revolution’s sort of built into the idea. It’s more heresy in the film world for me to pitch things that are sort of unheard of.”

It may take a while, though, as Christopher is currently directing Tom in Mission: Impossible 6, while Emily is currently shooting Disney’s sequel Mary Poppins Returns.

Stay tuned!