From one blockbuster to the next: Variety is reporting that actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who was recently added to the ensemble of the RoboCop remake, has been cast as Dr. Whittle in the upcoming Hiroshi Sakurazaka manga adaptation All You Need Is Kill. The Warner Bros. sci-fi thriller helmed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith) stars Tom Cruise as Lt. Col. Bill Cage, a soldier who gets caught in a loop of his own death on the battlefield while fighting an alien force.
Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada, Looper) plays Rita Vrataski, a highly decorated U.S. Special forces soldier who is caught in the loop with Cruise’s character. Bill Paxton (Twister, Apollo 13) also stars in the Dante Harper adaptation as sergeant to Cruise’s character. Check out a synopsis of the film below, along with some new set photos from Coming Soon.
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.
All You Need is Kill is currently in production in the UK and is slated for release on March 7th, 2014.