History Trivia / EdgeOfTomorrow

* RealLifeRelative: Creator/EmilyBlunt's younger brother has a cameo as a soldier who she punches - the one who says "oh God, it's the Full Metal B-"

* ApprovalOfGod: [[LightNovel/AllYouNeedIsKill Hiroshi Sakurazaka]] thought the film was [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2014/06/17/the-novel-author-is-happy-with-all-you-need-is-kill-live-action-film "very well done."]] He even visited the set of the movie and tried wearing one of the 35kg suits being used.

* SequelGap: Creator/TomCruise and Creator/EmilyBlunt have been very enthusiastic about doing a sequel, and one was announced in 2016. Unfortunately, they're also both huge stars and it's been a nightmare finding a gap in both their schedules that lines up where they can make it. In late 2020 it was finally stated that production would begin the following year.

** Tom Cruise, as usual, did most of [[NoStuntDouble his own stunts]] in the movie - wearing the ridiculously heavy prop armor, no less. Doubly impressive for him, since he's infamously such a short guy.

* FatalMethodActing: A near miss. Emily Blunt missed her mark while filming a driving scene and crashed the car into a tree. It nearly killed Tom Cruise but the two of them burst out laughing immediately.
* HideYourPregnancy: Emily Blunt had become pregnant when it was time for some re-shoots, necessitating a stunt double for action scenes.
* MarketBasedTitle:
** The Japanese release of the film carries the same title as the original novel.
** The U.S. home releases seem to change the film's main title to its original tagline, ''[[http://variety.com/2014/film/news/tom-cruise-edge-of-tomorrow-gets-repositioned-as-live-die-repeat-on-home-video-1201283383/ Live. Die. Repeat.]]'', in an attempt to effectively "re-launch" the film's marketing following its initially poor performance.

** Nance - the tomboy ActionGirl of J-Squad - is played by Charlotte Riley, who often does period pieces and love interest roles.
** Downplayed with Emily Blunt, as this marked her first ActionGirl role. She had flirted with being an ActionSurvivor in ''{{Film/Looper}}''.

* RealLifeRelative: Emily Blunt's younger brother has a cameo as a soldier who she punches - the one who says "oh God, it's the Full Metal B-"
* SequelGap: Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt have been very enthusiastic about doing a sequel, and one was announced in 2016. Unfortunately, they're also both huge stars and it's been a nightmare finding a gap in both their schedules that lines up where they can make it. In late 2020 it was finally stated that production would begin the following year.

* SleeperHit: The film stumbled during its opening weekend, grossing $28.7 million, and was quickly written off by many as a box office bomb. However, thanks to Cruise's international appeal and good word of mouth, it managed to show its worth throughout the summer and became a sleeper hit, grossing $369.2 million worldwide, making it the 19th highest grossing film of 2014.
* ThrowItIn: Cage and Rita's kiss before the final battle was added in by Emily Blunt on the spur of the moment.

** The movie was originally going to have the same title as the light novel.

* ActorAllusion:
** Tom Cruise playing a sleazy media rep who undergoes a change of heart definitely made reviewers think of ''Film/JerryMaguire''. The scene at the end, where he [[spoiler:blows the Omega up,]] is not the first time he kills something by [[Film/WarOfTheWorlds feeding it a bunch of grenades]].
** Bill Paxton played Hudson in ''Film/{{Aliens}}''. Not only did the movie involve MildlyMilitary marines fighting aliens, his own character had a lot of the JerkAss qualities that Cage started off with.
** The members of J-Squad include Series/RobinHood and [[Series/GameOfThrones Ser Dontos]].
** Emily Blunt plays a woman who becomes [[Film/TheAdjustmentBureau involved in a]] [[Film/{{Looper}} time-travel plot.]]

** [[https://ukitakumuki.deviantart.com/art/Edge-of-Tomorrow-Pitch-Art-1-2010-457550849 More streamlined Jacket designs]] closer to those in the manga version have been considered at one point, but they're ultimately changed.

* AcclaimedFlop: Zigzagged. It made its money back but under-performed in America partially due to its release directly competing with the teen TearJerker ''Film/TheFaultInOurStars'' and thus lost its female audience and in part due to its vague, unmemorable title, though [[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/edge_of_tomorrow/ critics and audiences both loved the movie]]. Thankfully, GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff is in full effect and [[SubvertedTrope the movie did well overseas]]. In particular, it did amazing in China and South Korea, and was widely loved worldwide The strong word-of-mouth made the movie hold well and pushed it just over the $100 million mark in North America, despite its disappointing $29 million opening, after which Box Office Mojo stated the movie had very little chance of approaching triple-digits.

* AcclaimedFlop: Zigzagged. It made it's money back but under-performed in America partially due to its release directly competing with the teen TearJerker ''Film/TheFaultInOurStars'' and thus lost its female audience and in part due to its vague, unmemorable title, though [[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/edge_of_tomorrow/ critics and audiences both loved the movie]]. Thankfully, GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff is in full effect and [[SubvertedTrope the movie did well overseas]]. In particular, it did amazing in China and South Korea, and was widely loved worldwide The strong word-of-mouth made the movie hold well and pushed it just over the $100 million mark in North America, despite its disappointing $29 million opening, after which Box Office Mojo stated the movie had very little chance of approaching triple-digits.

** Part of the "flop" status could be attributed to poor marketing that didn't show enough of the humor or characters. Even the title, ''Edge of Tomorrow'', isn't nearly as fun as the original ''All You Need Is Kill''. When marketing the DVD release, Warner Bros. added the line "Live. Die. Repeat." to emphasize the GroundhogDayLoop. Commentators have noted that "Live Die Repeat" is also a much better title in itself.

** She (and the rest of the cast) also deserve praise for wearing those heavy suits of armor. Not to mention having to act out the same scenes over and over.

** Emily has said in interviews one of the first shots they filmed was when Rita, Cage and J Squad drop into Paris. The suits were heavy and uncomfortable even when hanging from a support rig in the ceiling, and the dropship interior set was extremely hot. She eventually grew accustomed to wearing the Jacket, but had something of a mini-breakdown on the first day.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/BradPitt and Creator/RyanGosling were both considered for the role of Cage.

* AcclaimedFlop:
** The movie underperformed in the United States in part due to its release directly competing with the teen TearJerker ''Film/TheFaultInOurStars'' and thus lost its female audience and in part due to its vague, unmemorable title, though [[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/edge_of_tomorrow/ critics and audiences both loved the movie]]. Thankfully, GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff is in full effect and [[SubvertedTrope the movie did well overseas]]. In particular, it did amazing in China and South Korea, and was widely loved worldwide.
** The strong word-of-mouth at least made the movie hold well and pushed it just over the $100 million mark in North America, despite its disappointing $29 million opening, after which Box Office Mojo stated the movie had very little chance of approaching triple-digits.

** Creator/EmilyBlunt seriously ripped herself for the role.

** The strong word-of-mouth at least made the movie hold well and pushed it just over the $100 million mark in North America, despite its disappointing $29 million opening, after which [=BoxOfficeMojo.com=] stated the movie had very little chance of approaching triple-digits.

** Emily Blunt plays a woman who becomes [[Film/{{Looper}} involved in a time-travel plot.]]

* RealLifeRelative: Emily Blunt's younger brother has a cameo as a soldier who she punches - and he says "oh God, it's the Full Metal B-"

** Tom Cruise playing a sleazy media rep who undergoes a change of heart definitely made reviewers think of ''JerryMaguire''. The scene at the end, where he [[spoiler:blows the Omega up,]] is not the first time he kills something by [[Film/WarOfTheWorlds feeding it a bunch of grenades]].

* DeletedRole: Re-shoots added in a role for Jeremy Piven, but it was left on the cutting room floor.