Edge of Tomorrow (2014) on Netflix
PG-1320141h 53mActionAdventureSci-Fi
Mimics have overrun Europe. Public affairs officer William Cage, who has never seen combat, is dropped into the invasion's first wave. He is killed and wakes on the same morning.
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Plot summary
An alien race called the Mimics has overrun much of Europe, and the United Defense Force prepares to invade France after a victory at Verdun won by Sergeant Rita Vrataski. General Brigham gives Major William Cage, a public affairs officer with no combat experience, the job of filming the offensive from the front line. Cage tries to blackmail him and is arrested, demoted to private and handed to Master Sergeant Farell and the J-Squad at Heathrow. The landing is ambushed on the beach. Cage brings down an Alpha Mimic with a Claymore mine and is killed in the blast, then wakes again at Heathrow on the morning he has already lived through.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
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- Each actor needed four people to help put on the battle suit, and Tom Cruise initially needed 30 minutes to put his on and another 30 to remove it, a process later cut down to 30 seconds.
- Warner Bros. first approached Brad Pitt to star in Edge of Tomorrow; after he declined, the studio went to Tom Cruise, and once Cruise accepted, the script changed the age of the leading role to fit him.
- A brief scene shot in London's Trafalgar Square closed the square to the public, brought in tanks, and required closing 36 roads and diverting 122 bus routes, plus a costly restoration of a historic cricket ground wicket after a production helicopter knocked it over.
- Six months before filming began, Doug Liman discarded two-thirds of Harper's original script. Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth were hired to rewrite it, then Simon Kinberg took over, and eight weeks before shooting Christopher McQuarrie replaced Kinberg.
- With no satisfactory ending in place, Doug Liman opted to finish the screenplay during principal photography even though the producers and studio executives were worried about starting to shoot without a set conclusion.
- On the second day of filming at Leavesden, Doug Liman demanded a total reshoot of everything shot on day one, which concerned the producers, according to the Los Angeles Times.
- Framestore created the film's digital Paris from photomodeling based on three days of visits; because the city is a no-fly zone, its artists took their aerial images by climbing an 80-meter crane parked in the Louvre courtyard.
- Doug Liman intended to film the beach battle on location, but the studio built a beach set at its studio site surrounded by green screens, which visual effects artists used to extend the beach with plates shot at Saunton Sands in North Devon.
