Episode 72: Edge of Tomorrow

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

The LFTS team discusses Edge of Tomorrow’s surprising approach to a time-loop premise, the filmmaker’s decision to expand the world of the story, and why the beach scene makes for such a thrilling set piece.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast where each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.
0:13.8	Today we're talking about Edge of Tomorrow. Some of you might know it as the live, I repeat. We'll talk about that.
0:18.7	The 2014 film directed by Doug Lyman,
0:21.7	screenplay by Christopher McCory, Jess Butterworth, and John Henry Butterworth. Based on All You Need
0:27.3	is Killed by Hiroshi Sakura Zaka. I'm joined today by the Beyond the screenplay team,
0:32.6	Trisha Ravan. Hello, everybody. Brian Bittner. Hello again. And Alex Coyotes. Hi.
0:38.0	Before we dive in to Edge of Tomorrow, Spotify question, because this is something that I think
0:43.4	we all need to think about is what is your favorite Emily Blunt performance.
0:47.6	Because there are so many, how do you choose?
0:50.2	I want to know what people say.
0:52.0	And they are all so good.
0:53.4	They are all so good. I don't want to know what people say. And they are all so good. They are all so good.
0:54.6	I don't want to choose.
0:56.3	Yeah.
0:56.9	We like to make our questions hard.
0:58.8	So, Edge of Tomorrow, Emily Blunt is great.
1:01.7	It's a really fun action time loop movie.
1:05.2	I remember when it came out.
1:07.2	Again, if you lived in L.A., there were those posters everywhere that had live, die,
1:11.9	repeat all over it and then like edge of tomorrow at the bottom and it's kind of this famous
1:16.4	marketing disaster that happened.
1:18.9	Choice.
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