As much as I’d love to see Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s “All You Need is Kill” on the big screen, I don’t think it’s going to happen for quite some time. It’ll be one of those movies that everyone who has read the book wants to make into a movie, and starts to work on it, but in the end, it gets lost in the shuffle of actors and directors and studio suits always moving around, which in Hollywood is pretty common. After all, how long did it take them to finally make “Watchmen”? Exactly.
Anyways, if Warner Bros. does succeed in getting “Kill” made in our lifetime, it might just be with Tom Cruise in the lead. This would, of course, drastically alter the novel’s storyline of a young recruit fighting a war against an invading alien species (Cruise is what, in his ’40s?), but it can be done. Tweak the story a bit, and voila, you have “All you Need is Kill” on the big screen.
Or “We Mortals Are”, as THR seems to be saying the film has since been retitled. They report that Cruise and Warner Bros. are currently in talks to make Cruise their star, which would make “Kill” Cruise’s second sci-fi epic for Warner, having already been attached to “Tron: Legacy” director Joseph Kosinski’s own ambitious sci-fi project “Horizions” (aka “Oblivious”).
We shall see how this progresses…
