Tom Cruise seems to want to go back in time to 2014 or so, when was the new hot thing and could effortlessly earn a sequel (or three). That technology hasn’t been invented yet, but Cruise is now doing the next best thing: throwing his powers behind getting a sequel greenlit in the current timeline. In an interview with magazine, director Doug Liman assured fans that the long-gestating follow-up to his extraterrestrial favorite isn’t totally out of orbit.
The 2014 film, which follows characters played by Cruise and Emily Blunt as they harness the power of time travel to take down a species of alien monsters, did just okay at the box office but has found more life and fans in the decade since. A of a sequel—given the title —were announced, but nothing ever came to fruition. That isn’t stopping Cruise, though.
( ) Or Liman, for that matter. “We keep talking about it,” the director said of his and Cruise’s plans for the franchise. “We love that world.
” Time is, fittingly, no object either. “I don’t know how long Cameron took his Terminators..
. but at the time it felt like a long time,” Liman added. As points out, the director said back in 2016 that was going to “revolutionise how people make sequels,” so they’ve definitely given themselves some room to play around.
Maybe if this does happen they’ll take a -style approach and never address the fact that all the actors are older, even though the film is set earlier than the first. It’s all a big .
