Long-Awaited Tom Cruise Action Sequel Gets Major Update From Director

Director Doug Liman has revealed the standing of the long-awaited science fiction motion sequel, Fringe of Tomorrow 2. And issues sound promising. Talking with Collider just lately, Liman revealed that he’s nonetheless working arduous on the follow-up, which might see Tom Cruise return as Main William Cage, with the filmmaker saying he’d be “loopy” to not Fringe of Tomorrow off the bottom. Nevertheless, he nonetheless has to determine precisely tips on how to “crack it.”

“I imply, Emily Blunt and Tom Cruise have by no means been extra on high of their recreation than they’re proper now. I’d be loopy to not be making an attempt to, you understand, determine tips on how to make a sequel. So I’m spending time making an attempt to crack it.”

The primary Fringe of Tomorrow finds Cruise’s character on the middle of a time-loop, and Liman admits that discovering his method again into the story and its wibbly, wobbly, timey, wimey methods is proving slightly tough. However he refuses to surrender.

“On the flip facet, time journey’s actually robust. Like actually, actually robust. All you need to do is develop a film with time journey to return to the conclusion that people won’t ever journey by time as a result of it’s arduous to determine a 3rd act in a film with time journey. So I do know for a truth people are by no means going to journey by time however I’m making an attempt to crack it.”

The A-list standing of each Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, in addition to the passionate following that the primary Fringe of Tomorrow has garnered since being launched 20 years in the past, would absolutely make a sequel an instantaneous hit. Right here’s hoping that Liman can determine a technique to deliver Cruise, Blunt, the alien invaders, and the time journey shenanigans again for one more go-around.

Tom Cruise Is Nonetheless Combating for Fringe of Tomorrow 2

Not solely is Doug Liman nonetheless making an attempt to crack the story for Fringe of Tomorrow 2, however he additionally just lately revealed that he and Tom Cruise usually talk about the mission, with the High Gun and Mission: Inconceivable star nonetheless combating to get it made. For Liman, although, he won’t return for extra until it’s completely the appropriate factor to do and lives as much as the legacy of its predecessor. He defined to Collider:

“Like clearly the system could be like simply go make [it] and it doesn’t even matter as a result of it’s a sequel and it’ll do a billion {dollars}. However like, as a result of the film is so fashionable and like I’m simply—I might by no means do this. And Tom would by no means do this. Emily would by no means do this. Like we might solely—we care method an excessive amount of about, like, you understand, we now have an excessive amount of pleasure in our work to ever take the simple bait.”