Warner Bros. has released a new image from director Doug Liman’s (The Bourne Identity) promising sci-fi actioner Edge of Tomorrow.  The film stars Tom Cruise as a military officer who is killed within minutes of a doomed combat mission to take down a hive-like alien race.  He wakes up and is forced to relive the day over and over again, but it allows him to become a better soldier and perhaps change his fate thanks to the help of a fellow officer played by Emily BluntThe film’s first trailer put it squarely on my radar with it’s fascinating twist on a Groundhog Day-like premise, and this new image shows off the crazy mech suits that Cruise and Blunt’s characters wear.

Hit the jump to check out the new image.  The film also stars Bill Paxton, Laura Pulver, and Jeremy PivenEdge of Tomorrow opens June 6th.

Via Tom Cruise’s official Twitter.

 

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Here’s the official synopsis for Edge of Tomorrow:

The epic action of “Edge of Tomorrow” unfolds in a near future in which an alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world.

Lt. Col. Bill Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously dropped into what amounts to a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, Cage now finds himself inexplicably thrown into a time loop—forcing him to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again…and again.

But with each battle, Cage becomes able to engage the adversaries with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt). And, as Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated encounter gets them one step closer to defeating the enemy.