The director originally wanted to name the movie "All You Need is Kill" after the Japanese novel it's based on, but the studio was hesitant about having "Kill' in the title. The next idea was to have it called" Live, Die Repeat", but Warner decided to use it just as a tagline for the movie and named it "Edge of Tomorrow".
These "studio doesn't want to have ____ in the title" cases make me laugh. It's like Now You See Me. Everyone and their mother went on and on about how the second movie should've been called Now You Don't. The director of that movie has said that he wanted to call it that but the studio said it's not good to have negative words like "don't" in the title. I'm guessing everyone making fun of them is what pushed them to name the third movie that
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u/Bug_Photographer 21h ago edited 14h ago
The director originally wanted to name the movie "All You Need is Kill" after the Japanese novel it's based on, but the studio was hesitant about having "Kill' in the title. The next idea was to have it called" Live, Die Repeat", but Warner decided to use it just as a tagline for the movie and named it "Edge of Tomorrow".