Emily Blunt In Talks To Join Tom Cruise In All You Need Is Kill

While more attention has been focused recently on Tom Cruise’s first sci-fi project for the year, the long-gestating Joseph Kosinsky film Oblivion, another high-profile, high concept film – Doug Liman’s All You Need Is Kill has been chugging along in development. Cruise has been locked in for a while, and the question has turned to the movie’s female lead, with word arriving that Emily Blunt is now in talks to sign on.

Kill has had its own lengthy journey towards the screen, with Liman aboard in 2010 and Cruise signing on last December. Adapted from Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s graphic novel, the plot follows a soldier killed in action fighting aliens who is forced to endure his final battle again and again, Groundhog Day-style until he gets it right. If she locks down the role, Blunt will be one of Cruise’s fellow troops.

With a script from Dante Harper now going through rewrites courtesy of Joby Harold, the movie should be shooting later this year.

Warner Bros., which has been backing Kill, has also been trying to get Blunt on board various projects, including The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which is currently residing in limbo, and The Thin Man, with Blunt as one of the prime candidates to play Nora Charles to Johnny Depp’s Nick in the remake of the 1934 film.

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