By Tom Cruise signed a new deal with Warner Bros. Pictures back in January that allows him to produce and star in movies for the studio.
Cruise of course is busy right now with “Mission: Impossible 8” for the rest of this year. Once it’s completed, the plan is to move on to other things, one being a film with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
One of the first films from the Warners deal is expected to be his and director Christopher McQuarrie’s so-called ‘gnarly project’ which is likely a remake of Clint Eastwood starrer “The Gauntlet”.
However director Doug Liman, speaking with Total Film (via World of Reel) recently, says that Warners is keen on getting the long-gestating sequel to his and Cruise’s 2014 sci-fi-action epic “Edge of Tomorrow” moving:
“I do think there’s probably no better compliment to a movie than people wanting for there to be a sequel. There’s no better compliment than Warner Bros. constantly bringing up, ‘Will you go and make another one of these?’”
Even if it does go ahead though, Liman says his filmmaking style has changed so much over the years what will result will be quite different:
“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.”
The first film earned $375 million at the global box-office from a $175 million budget, but the title became a major home video hit and has since been recognised as a cult hit. At last report last year, Emily Blunt indicated that a script for the sequel was done.
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