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Live Action Edge of Tomorrow's Featurettes Posted

posted on by Lynzee Loveridge
Videos give behind-the-scenes look at upcoming sci-fi film starring Tom Cruise

Seven featurettes for Edge of Tomorrow, the upcoming Hollywood movie based on the novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, began streaming on Monday.

"Reliving the Day"

"Tom Cruise Is Bill Cage"

"Exo Suit"

"Emily Blunt Is Rita Vrataski"

"Learning To Fight"

"Forming A Defense"

"The J Squad"

Warner Bros. describes the story:

The epic action of Edge of Tomorrow unfolds in a near future in which an alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world. Lt. Col. Bill Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously dropped into what amounts to a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, Cage now finds himself inexplicably thrown into a time loop—forcing him to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again...and again.

But with each battle, Cage becomes able to engage the adversaries with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt). And, as Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated encounter gets them one step closer to defeating the enemy.

The film stars Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Charlotte Riley, Kick Gurry, Bill Paxton, Kidus Henok, Tony Way, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. It opens in 3D, 2D, and IMAX theaters on June 6.

Viz Media published Sakurazaka's novel in English to launch its Haikasoru imprint for Japanese science fiction and fantasy in 2009. The book's cover art was drawn by Yoshitoshi ABe (Serial Experiments Lain, Haibane Renmei). Viz also released a one-volume full-color graphic novel adaptation of the story on May 6. Nick Mamatas (Move Under Ground) adapted the story and Lee Ferguson (Green Arrow, Miranda Mercury) drew the art.

The novel spawned a manga by artist Takeshi Obata (Hikaru no Go, Death Note, Bakuman.) and writer Ryōsuke Takeuchi (ST&RS) in Shueisha's Young Jump magazine in January. Sakurazaka is now working on the sequel to the novel.

Thanks to Daniel Zelter for the news tip

[Via Dark Horizons]


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