Trailers for trailer are a bit of an odd thing, but when it’s an original movie with a massive budget, you can understand why a studio would think letting people know a trailer is coming and what they might expect. Now a brief look at Edge Of Tomorrow has arrived ahead of tomorrow’s full trailer – and it’s here to show this is going to be sci-fi on a huge scale.
Here’s the synopsis: ‘The epic action of ‘Edge of Tomorrrow’ unfolds in a near future in which an alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world.
‘Major William Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously dropped into what amounts to a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, Cage now finds himself inexplicably thrown into a time loopforcing him to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again and again.
‘But with each battle, Cage becomes able to engage the adversaries with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt). And, as Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated encounter gets them one step closer to defeating the enemy.
‘The international cast also includes Bill Paxton (“Aliens, HBOs “Big Love), Kick Gurry (Australian TVs “Tangle), Dragomir Mrsic (“Snabba Cash II), Charlotte Riley (“World Without End), Jonas Armstrong (BBC TVs “Robin Hood), and Franz Drameh (“Attack the Block).
‘Liman is directing “Edge of Tomorrow from a screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie and Jez Butterworth & John-Henry Butterworth, based on the acclaimed novel All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka.’
It’s out at the end of May.