New EDGE OF TOMORROW Images Feature Tom Cruise And Emily Blunt

USAToday has posted two new images (likely screengrabs from the new trailer, not actual stills) from Doug Liman’s Edge of Tomorrow, ahead of the first trailer which is expected to be playing in front of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug this weekend. The film is based on the manga All You Need Is Kill and has an interesting Groundhog Day meets Robocop vibe, it has a release date of June 6th, 2014. While I haven’t seen the trailer there is promise via set images that Liman and Warner Bros. have tried hard to do some serious world-building here, as usual if this is successful enough a new franchise could be developed.

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 worlds armies have joined forces for a last stand offensive against the alien horde, with no second chances.

Lt. Col. Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and then droppeduntrained and ill-equippedinto 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 againand again. Direct physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loopdooming 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, 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.

SOURCE: USATODAY