Tuesday, March 25, 2014

The Look of Edge of Tomorrow

I've seen the trailer for Edge of Tomorrow starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. The film doesn't debut until June 6 so none of us have seen much more than that.

What strikes me is that the battle hardware the Cruise character wears looks exactly like the Mobile Infantry gear in Robert Heinlein's book Starship Trooper, complete with Y-shaped launching rack on the back.

In fact I believed it was a more-faithful remake of the Starship Trooper film until the trailer's end when they ran the title: Edge of Tomorrow. I wonder if others made this association?