Tom Cruise is busier than ever these days.
After wrapping up his divorce and Oblivion earlier this year, he jetted off to film All You Need Is Kill and the first visual of his hard work has arrived.
The first image (above) from the manga adaptation features the actor — who stars alongside Emily Blunt as Lt. Col. Bill Cage — running from a giant explosion in a heavily armored suit that can’t make running from giants explosions any easier.
The Doug Liman movie is basically a science fiction version of Groundhog Day because it’s about a soldier who has to keep repeating a battle he dies in, over and over again, until he finally figures out to beat the alien race he’s fighting.
Don’t take our word for it, though. Check out the full synopsis … AFTER THE JUMP!!
The story unfolds in a near future in which a hive-like alien race, called Mimics, have hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, shredding great cities to rubble and leaving millions of human casualties in their wake. No army in the world can match the speed, brutality or seeming prescience of the weaponized Mimic fighters or their telepathic commanders. But now the world’s armies have joined forces for a last stand offensive against the alien horde, with no second chances.
Lt. Col. Bill Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and then dropped—untrained and ill-equipped—into what amounts to little more than a suicide mission. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an Alpha down with him. But, impossibly, he awakens back at the beginning of the same hellish day, and is forced to fight and die again…and again. Direct physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop—dooming him to live out the same brutal combat over and over.
But with each pass, Cage becomes tougher, smarter, and able to engage the Mimics with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt), who has lain waste to more Mimics than anyone on Earth. As Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated battle becomes an opportunity to find the key to annihilating the alien invaders and saving the Earth.
The alien epic is scheduled to hit theaters on March 14, 2014!
[Image via Warner Bros.]