Tom Cruise has a busy year of science fiction flicks ahead of him, and while most of them are promising, the one that has caught my attention is All You Need is Kill, Doug Liman's adaptation of Hiroshi Sakurazaka awesome novel. A combination of Groundhog Day and Source Code, the story follows untrained soldier Bill Cage, who gets thrown into combat against a hive-like alien race and is killed within moments. But that's not the end of his story, as direct contact with one of the creatures has thrown him into a timeloop where he's forced to relive his death repeatedly. The only way to stop it is to learn from it and become the unstoppable soldier he was meant to be.
With filming now underway, the first image has been released of Cruise in a heavy mech suit racing from a fiery explosion. Hopefully this is just the first of many shots to debut soon because I'm dying to see Emily Blunt as Special Forces agent Rita Vrataski. Bill Paxton and Charlotte Riley will co-star when All You Need Is Kill opens on March 14th 2014. Check out the full synopsis below... [2chradio]
PLOT: 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.
