Emily Blunt Suits Up In New ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ Poster
Warner Bros. has released a great new poster for Doug Liman’s upcoming sci-fi film Edge of Tomorrow featuring Emily Blunt decked out in a mechanical suit. Based on Hiroshi Sakurazakawill’s acclaimed novel All You Need Is Kill, the film centers on a soldier fighting in a war with aliens who finds himself caught in a time loop of his last day in the battle. The studio will be unveiling the first footage from the film during their panel at Comic-Con today. Tom Cruise, Bill Paxton, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, and Charloette Riley also star. Edge of Tomorrow opens June 6, 2014.
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 world’s armies have joined forces for a last stand offensive against the alien horde, with no second chances.
Blunt plays Rita Vrataski, a decorated US special forces soldier who is often referred to as “Full Metal Bitch” by her comrades.
Lt. Col. Bill Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and then dropped—untrained and ill-equipped—into 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 loop—dooming 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 (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.