Edge of Tomorrow is a popular movie featuring Tom Cruise that mixes science fiction with action. Now, there is a new film coming, but it is not a sequel.
What kind of movie is Edge of Tomorrow? In 2014, Edge of Tomorrow was released, a sci-fi movie with many action elements. Tom Cruise plays the soldier Cage, who must fight against aliens. This is not so easy, especially because Cage is trapped in a time loop.
If Cage dies on the battlefield, he is simply revived and must relive the day. The advantage is that he becomes better and more efficient each time.
Edge of Tomorrow was not a massive financial hit, but it grossed over 377 million US dollars on a budget of 178 million US dollars (via IMDb). The film was also popular with fans and critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a critic score of 91% and a user score of 90%.
Many fans have been hoping for a sequel to the film for years, but that is currently not in the works. However, fans of the story can look forward to an upcoming anime adaptation that will adapt the original light novel.
You can watch the trailer for All You Need Is Kill here:
Edge of Tomorrow is based on a Japanese light novel
What is All You Need Is Kill about? All You Need Is Kill was originally published as a light novel in 2004. Light novels are Japanese books that are often lightly illustrated. Many light novels are also adapted into manga or anime, such as Sword Art Online.
All You Need Is Kill was also adapted into a manga in 2014. The drawings for the manga are by Takeshi Obata, who is well known for Death Note. Edge of Tomorrow is also based on All You Need Is Kill, but the setting and characters have been Americanized.
Now, over 20 years after the release of the light novel, an anime adaptation is following in the form of a film. In the original, Keiji Kiriya takes the lead role. He is also a soldier fighting against an alien threat. However, when he dies, he realizes he is stuck in a time loop.
The unique thing about the anime film is that the story is likely told from Rita Vrataski’s perspective, the equivalent of the character played by Emily Blunt.
The animation studio behind the upcoming film might be familiar to film and anime fans. Studio°4C has animated well-known films such as Tekkon Kinkreet and the Berserk – The Golden Age
trilogy.
Is the film worth watching if you have already seen Edge of Tomorrow? One can’t say anything about the quality yet, but the trailer certainly promises to be visually interesting, especially with the anime studio behind it. All You Need Is Kill stays closer to the source material, which also makes the perspective on the story different from the American version. Moreover, the ending of the Tom Cruise film differs from that of the light novel.
When is All You Need Is Kill coming out? So far, there is no release date for the anime film, so one will have to be patient for now. Many movies draw upon elements from anime films, even if one might not notice it right away. You can find parallels between major films and well-known anime in this list: 5 movies that remind you of anime and that you might not think about immediately
