Edge of Tomorrow - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[ella]

The book describes Rita Vrataski as "tall, ruthless, with a knockout body and an air of total self-confidence", much like Emily Blunt in real life.

[oscar]

The message Cage (Tom Cruise) sees over Rita's (Emily Blunt) picture on the side of the bus every time he wakes up is, "Full Metal Bitch."

[victoria]

Emily Blunt admitted that after putting on the metal suit, she started crying because it was so heavy (it weighed 85 pounds) and that she would be required to perform action scenes in it for five months. She was jokingly told by Tom Cruise to "stop being such a wuss."

[aaron]

Emily Blunt thought it was fun to work with Tom Cruise because it was such a challenging shoot, and the exo-suits were arduous to wear every day.

[ken]

Doug Liman felt he had to keep up with Tom Cruise all through filming.

[willard]

The house where they rest is the same house from Looper (2012), another Emily Blunt movie.

[kyle]

Cage never mentions how many times the reset had happened to him, during the entire movie. Even though Rita asks him on few occasions about how many times, he never answers with a number. Rita once says she watched Hendricks die 300 times. That is the only mention of reset times.

[jesus]

The film's tagline may derive from a line in the book, "wash, rinse, repeat".

[gabriel]

The gray minivan (towing the caravan), used by Rita and Cage, is a Renault Espace.

[toni]

Following her lead roles in The Adjustment Bureau (2011) and Looper (2012), this marks the third time that Emily Blunt has starred in a science fiction film where the main characters are trying to alter future events.

[claude]

In the beginning of the 1960 movie, Sink the Bizmark!, actor Kenneth More arrives at Trafalgar Square, St James's, London, England, for a desperate military operation. Approximately fifty-three years later, Tom Cruise arrives at Trafalgar Square in a similarly filmed scene.

[steve]

Dr. Carter estimates the occurrence of alpha mimics to be about one in 6.18 million. This could be a reference to the golden ratio, which is approximately 1.618 to 1 (or 1 to 0.618), and is found in the structures of some plants and animals.

[ava]

Filming started while the script was going over multiple revisions.

[javier]

During an early sequence in the film, Emily Blunt punches a young soldier who says, "Bloody hell, it's the Full Metal Bitch!" The part was played by her real-life younger brother, who had a cameo in the film.

[willard]

Hiroshi Sakurazaka also wrote Characters and Slum Online, published in English in 2010. He remains one of Japan's most energetic writers of light novels and adult science fiction.

[ruby]

Tom Cruise did all his own stunts; Doug Liman said he could make an amazing career out of it.

[jeffrey]

Tom Cruise wanted Cage's deaths to be terrifying as well as humorous.

[steve]

Had its premiere in London, Paris and New York City on the same day; one of the premieres was at 5 a.m., and it was wet; Doug Liman said that was a testament to Tom Cruise's star power. For the film's London premiere, Cruise landed a helicopter in Trafalgar Square. Emily Blunt called Cruise a Chatty Cathy at one of the premieres. At the film's French premiere, one of the exo-suits was on display.

[janice]

One of the news segments at the start of the film shows Tom Cruise superimposed on a control room with multiple screens. This background is recycled footage from WarGames (1983)