![]() ![]() His favorite games include Marvel's Spider-Man, The Last of Us, God of War, and Hades. Outside of Screen Rant, Chris enjoys watching his favorite sports teams (Giants, Yankees, and Knicks) and playing video games. Chris' favorite directors include Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, and Quentin Tarantino (among several others). He now has a wide range of cinematic tastes, enjoying the latest Hollywood blockbusters, Oscar contenders, and everything in between. Chris has attended several events for Screen Rant, including San Diego Comic-Con and Star Wars Celebration.Ĭhris credits Toy Story and Star Wars with launching a lifelong fascination with movies that led him on the path to his career. He was hired by Screen Rant in 2013 to write box office prediction posts in conjunction with the Screen Rant Underground's Box Office Battle game, and his role at the site grew from there. He is a graduate of Wesley College's Bachelor of Media Arts and Master of Sport Leadership programs. It's a mind-bending setup, but with the right amount of creativity, it could work very well.Ĭhris Agar is a senior movie/TV news editor for Screen Rant and one of Screen Rant's Rotten Tomatoes approved critics. The time travel aspect of the property allows Liman to play around with things, creating a scenario where Cage and Rita have to form their friendship again while living out days they technically have already experienced. At the film's conclusion, Cage was the only one who knew what had transpired, and Emily Blunt's Rita saw him as a complete stranger (even though the two fought side-by-side in the battle). Viewers may recall that the first movie ended with Cruise's Cage character defeating the Mimics and ending the time loop, waking up on the day of Operation Downfall to the news that the alien threat is no more. ![]() ![]() Since plot details are being kept under wraps for now, fans will have to wait to see how Edge of Tomorrow 2 will combine the tropes of a sequel and prequel. The original Edge of Tomorrow was seen as a great breath of fresh air, so it only makes sense that the sequel would try to be as well. That kind of risk is exciting to hear about, since sequels have become quite common in Hollywood. In his interview, he reiterated his earlier "revolutionize" claim, suggesting that whatever he came up with, it's something that hasn't been tackled in a mainstream film before. Admittedly, the sequel/prequel blend is reminiscent of The Godfather: Part II (which had Robert De Niro star as a young Vito Corleone in flashbacks), but Liman appears to be doing something a bit different. But deep down, it’s the most feminist summer action flick in years.It's unknown what Liman means by that, but it certainly sounds like a fascinating concept. It’s being sold to the public as a Tom Cruise movie. In a way, Edge of Tomorrow ends up being a deliciously subversive kind of blockbuster. She may need Cruise’s time-bending gifts, but he needs her guts and smarts more. And she takes to the role like the second coming of Ripley. But Blunt is given the chance to shine as the bare-knuckle badass Rita. We tend to think that stars of Cruise’s magnitude are either unwilling or constitutionally unable to let their female costars share the glow. Edge of Tomorrow was so hard and was so draining. While Cruise sells the déjà vu contraption with his usual single-minded determination, it’s Blunt who emerges as the who-knew wild card. It’s not the most original setup, to be sure, but what makes this particular celluloid Möbius strip bend in on itself with such seamlessness is the cheeky airtight logic of Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, and John-Henry Butterworth’s script - and the stars. Like Groundhog Day or Source Code, Doug Liman’s Edge of Tomorrow is one of those time-loop thrillers where a reluctant hero has to relive the same events over and over, videogame-style, learning a little more each time until he can get it all right (see sidebar). He bites it on the battlefield almost immediately. When he comes to, he’s being barked at by a Southern-fried sergeant (Bill Paxton) who strong-arms him into joining a suicide mission. Cage appears on air to reassure humanity that these new foes can be beaten, pointing to the heroics of Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), a fearless soldier anointed with the nickname ”Angel of Verdun.” But when a general (Brendan Gleeson) wants to embed Cage on the front lines, he unsuccessfully tries to chicken out and gets Tased by an MP. A follow-up to the Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt-starring time travel action movie has been talked. As the film opens, we’re barraged with a series of TV news bulletins giving us the latest on an apocalyptic invasion of Earth by a slithery race of calamari-looking aliens called Mimics. is officially moving forward with a sequel to Doug Liman’s Edge of Tomorrow. He’s a smooth-talking coward with a smug grin. William Cage, a military PR officer whose only knowledge of combat is the kind he’s had with reporters in the spin room. ![]()
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