Tom Cruise is loving sci-fi at the moment, as he’s recently finished shooting Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion and now he’s headed to the set of Doug Liman’s All You Need Is Kill, and to prove it the first shot from the movie has shown up online (via CBM). As you can see, Cruise is having a bit of an explosion issue and is wearing some sort of haute couture mech suit.
We’re presuming the suit is what many have said will be the future of warfare, where soldiers where mechanical appendanges that make them stronger and fast (basically partway to being Iron Man).
Here’s the synopsis: ‘The story unfolds in a near future in which a hive-like alien race, called Mimics, have hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, shredding great cities to rubble and leaving millions of human casualties in their wake. No army in the world can match the speed, brutality or seeming prescience of the weaponized Mimic fighters or their telepathic commanders. But now the worlds armies have joined forces for a last stand offensive against the alien horde, with no second chances.
‘Lt. Col. Bill Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and then droppeduntrained and ill-equippedinto what amounts to little more than a suicide mission. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an Alpha down with him. But, impossibly, he awakens back at the beginning of the same hellish day, and is forced to fight and die again and again. Direct physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loopdooming him to live out the same brutal combat over and over.
‘But with each pass, Cage becomes tougher, smarter, and able to engage the Mimics with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), who has lain waste to more Mimics than anyone on Earth. As Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated battle becomes an opportunity to find the key to annihilating the alien invaders and saving the Earth.’
The movie hits cinemas March 14th, 2014.