While attention has been focused recently on Tom Cruise’s first sci-fi project for next 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 there's word that Emily Blunt is now in talks to join up.
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 troopers.
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 is 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.
Blunt hits cinemas this week in Salmon Fishing In The Yemen. After that, she will next be seen in **The Five-Year Engagement **opposite Jason Segal (due June 22) and then Rian Johnson’s Looper, which is set for release on September 28.