It would be so great to see a sequel to Edge of Tomorrow get made, but at this point, I don’t know if it ever will. A few years ago we learned that a script was completed and that director Doug Liman was hoping to shoot it after Mission: Impossible 8, which is when Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise will be available again. But, it’s been awhile since there’s been any update on the project.We also don’t know when Cruise will ever be available again! He’s got Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two coming, he’s got a “Gnarly” R-rated movie to make after that, and then there’s the film project that will blast him off into space. Maybe after that he’ll get around to Edge of Tomorrow. While a guest on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Emily Blunt was once again asked about the sequel and she said: “I would love to make it a reality, but I just don’t know when or how.” She went on to add: “I’m so ready. I’m not the impediment. I promise.”It just seems like Cruise is just getting busier and busier, and I have no idea if he’ll ever be able to fit this project into his schedule. Matthew Robinson (The Invention Of Lying) pitched a take on the story that the studio apparently loved, and he wrote the initial draft of the script. Liman previously said that he likes the story for the sequel more than the first film and explained that it would revolutionize how people make sequels. He also said, “we’re gonna make it if we really believe in it. We have a story that the three of us love, so we’re working hard on the script.”As far as the story goes, it was said that it would pick up right where the last film left off, but then it will go backward in time. The director previously offered details in a previous interview, saying:“I think what people tend to do with sequels is they just make them bigger. And I’m like, ‘No, a sequel should be smaller.’ You did the first film as sort of the ad campaign for the sequel, so now you don’t need as much action, and in the case of Edge of Tomorrow, people obviously loved the comedy and they loved the situation… so we can do way more focus on Tom’s character and Emily Blunt’s character, and there’s a third character in the sequel that’s gonna for sure steal the movie. We can focus on that. I don’t need an action sequence every two minutes.”He went on to say:“It’s mostly not on the battlefield, so there’s a whole new arena of fights we’re going to do using a lot of the technology, but also, because it is a prequel, it’s a lot of the precursor stuff. I’m really interested in the details of that … Like batteries, do they run out on these suits? I mean, they must have batteries. Or he gets stuck with the menu in the wrong language, just the reality of that menu stuck in the wrong language when you’re in the middle of a battlefield and aliens are all around you and you gotta get the suit working again, that detail gives you drama and excitement. And humor. In the sequel, I’m creating an environment where I get to have even more of those details.”Blunt also talked about the script and said, “It’s really promising and really, really cool. I just don’t know when everything’s going to sort of align, you know what I mean? Between all of our schedules, it would just have to be the right time. But there is something in the works, for sure, that’s a great idea. A great idea.”One day maybe McQuarrie, Liman, and Cruise will find a window of time to make it, but it may not be for a long while.