BURBANK,
CA – The upcoming epic sci-fi thriller, starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt and
based on the book All You Need is Kill, will open on March 14, 2014,
from Warner Bros. Pictures, Legendary Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures.
The announcement was made by Dan Fellman, President of Domestic Distribution,
and Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, President of International Distribution, Warner
Bros. Pictures.
Cruise and Blunt |
Being
directed by Doug Liman, the film is the first motion picture to be shot at the
recently christened Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, and began principal
photography October 1.
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.
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.
Oscar®
nominee Cruise (the “Mission: Impossible” films, “Collateral,” “Jerry Maguire”)
and Blunt (“The Devil Wears Prada,” “The Adjustment Bureau”) lead an
international cast that also includes Bill Paxton (“Aliens,” HBO’s “Big Love”),
Jonas Armstrong (BBC TV’s “Robin Hood”), Tony Way (HBO’s “Game of Thrones”),
Kick Gurry (Australian TV’s “Tangle”), Franz Drameh (“Attack the Block”),
Dragomir Mrsic (“Snabba Cash II”), and Charlotte Riley (“World Without End”).
Liman (“The Bourne Identity,” “Mr.
& Mrs. Smith”) is directing the film from a screenplay by Dante Harper,
Christopher McQuarrie and Joby Harold, based on the acclaimed novel All You
Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. Erwin Stoff (“The Blind Side,” “I Am
Legend”), Gregory Jacobs (“Contagion”) and Jeffrey Silver (“300”) are the
producers. The executive producers are Jason Hoffs, Joby Harold, Doug Liman,
Dave Bartis, Tom Lassally, Hidemi Fukuhara, Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Alex
Garcia and Bruce Berman, with Tim Lewis and Kim Winther serving as
co-producers. (Credits are not final.)
The
behind-the-scenes team includes Academy Award®-winning director of
photography Dion Beebe (“Memoirs of a Geisha”), production designer Oliver
Scholl (“Jumper,” “Independence Day”), editor James Herbert (“Sherlock Holmes,”
“Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows”), costume designer Kate Hawley (upcoming
“Pacific Rim”), and Oscar®-nominated visual effects supervisor Nick
Davis (“The Dark Knight”).
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