MUMBAI: Sci-fi thriller All You Need Is Kill starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt will open on 14 March 2014. The film, based on the book by the same title, is from Warner Bros. Pictures, Legendary Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures.
The announcement of the release date was made by Warner Bros. Pictures president domestic distribution Dan Fellman and Warner Bros. Pictures president international distribution Veronika Kwan Vandenberg.
The story is set in the near future, in which a hive-like alien race, called Mimics, have hit Earth, shredding cities to rubble and leaving millions of human casualties. The world‘s armies have joined forces for a last offensive.
Lt. Col. Bill Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and then dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. But he awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again…and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.
"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," a description of the film says.
The film is being directed by Doug Liman and is the first to be shot at the recently christened Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden near London.