TRUEFILM Magazine Issue 1, May 2014 | Page 30

Summer Preview

Summer Preview

RELEASE 22 May
DIRECTOR Bryan Singer
CAST Hugh Jackman,

Jennifer Lawrence, Ian
McKellen
Hollywood knows that sequels
and prequels need to be the
biggest on the block. So with
three films, two Wolverine
spin-offs and a prequel, the
X-Men still appear to be having
a nightmare of a time to match
the box office ratings of their
Marvel rivals.
This time around we see
director, Bryan Singer, attempt
to take on the John Byrne
and Chris Claremont story
from X-Men comic Days Of
Future Past. The film will bring
together the cast from the
original X-Men trilogy, and
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EDGE OF TOMORROW

Photo: © Warner Bros.

Photo: © 20th Century Fox

X-MEN: DAYS OF
FUTURE PAST

RELEASE 30 May
DIRECTOR Doug Liman
CAST Tom Cruise, Emily
Blunt, Bill Paxton

sees them join forces with their
younger selves from X-Men:
First Class in an epic battle that
must change the past, in order
to save our future.
Like many of the X-Men films,
Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine is
central to the film’s storyline.
He must travel back in time to
1973 to stop a war that’s about
to happen between future
mutants and the Sentinels,
run by Bolivar Trask (Peter
Dinklage).
Jackman, star of the X-Men
films, says the latest instalment
in the franchise is the “biggest
of them all.” He spoke after
picking up the Icon gong at the
Empire Awards in March and
said, “It’s going to be amazing,

I actually really mean that. I
think it’s by far the biggest of
them all. The story is fantastic.
Simon Kinberg did a brilliant
job with the script, Bryan Singer
is back. It’s that unbelievable
cast. It’s a time travel story and
I play both periods so I get to
act with all those incredible
actors.”
With the young guns –
Jennifer Lawrence, James
McAvoy, and Nicholas Hoult
packing a punch, Singer has
possibly the most scorching
cast of the summer. Throw in
your veterans, Patrick Stewart
and Ian McKellen, along with
Hugh Jackman and Halle
Berry, it sends the cast hotness
to a whole new level.

Adapted from the Japanese
novel All You Need Is Kill,
Edge of Tomorrow sees Tom
Cruise back in sci-fi action in
what some are calling Starship
Troopers-meets-Groundhog
Day-meets Call of Duty.
Bill Cage is a soldier who’s
happy to be working far from
the front line in a war against
aliens. Cage oversees the
army’s PR and makes a series
of mistakes, where he ends up
in full battle on the front line,
and promptly dies. Caught in
a time loop, he finds himself
back in time and, with the help
of Special Forces fighter Rita
Vrataski, he begins to figure out
the secret to fighting the bad
guys. Can they make it work

and save mankind?
The film was first adapted into
a script in 2010 when Brad
Pitt was linked to play the lead
and Bourne Identity director
Doug Liman came on board to
direct. The film then still had
its original title, but everything
changed when the title changed,
and Brad Pitt departed the
running for the film. Tom
Cruise came on board and
the script was reworked so it
would suit him better. The cast
began to take shape, with the
arrival of Emily Blunt and Bill
Paxton, along with writers Alex
Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
Filming began in the autumn
of 2012, so it’s been through
its fair share of changes since it

was first given the green light.
“I always wanted to work with
Doug Liman,” said Cruise. “I
think what he does with the
genre is unique; he turns it on its
head. Chris McQuarrie’s script
and what they did with the
structure was unique.”
Liman joked about Tom
Cruise at a post-footage Q&A
saying, “If you love Tom Cruise,
you see him giving a genius
performance, and if you hate
Tom Cruise he dies like 200
times in the movie.”
Edge of Tomorrow looks like
one of the most action packed
movies of the summer and if
its story works, it could do well
during this summer season of
many blockbusters.
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