Chris Pratt as soldier of the future
In the late 2010s, Chris Pratt is a star of the big screen and appears at the forefront of blockbuster franchises Guardians of the Galaxy AND Jurassic world. Popular all over the world, “Avenger” together with Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans in particular, he therefore has the profile to take on the leading role futuristic, ambitious and unique action filmmixing spectacular war films, time travel and family dramas: Tomorrow’s war.
A group of travelers arrives from the future – precisely from the year 2051 – to deliver an urgent message: in 30 years, humanity will lose a global war against a deadly species of aliens who will come to destroy our civilization. The only way to survive this alien attack is to transport soldiers and civilians
Priority to Tom Cruise
With Chris Pratt in the lead role, 200 million dollars of the production budget and Chris McKay, famous animator and director of the successful film Lego Batman, the movie at the helm, studios Skydance and Paramount have big ambitions for the film and then announce the theatrical release in November 2019 from the December 25, 2020. But the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic upsets the schedules, and Paramount will then move it based on the reorganization of the Tom Cruise movie schedule.
On the one hand, the release of Top Gun: nonconformist was initially expected June 2020. Among the films most affected by the pandemic, it was precisely at the beginning of April that it was postponed to the cinema for the first time. December 2020AND expels mechanically Tomorrow’s war of its niche.
On the other hand, Tom Cruise initially announced it in 2019, before Covid-19 reset everything Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, part 1 would hit theaters in July 2021. Its production was first interrupted and then significantly slowed down by the pandemic, its move to was therefore announced at the end of April 2020 November 2021.
Forced to forgo its December 2020 release to make way for Top Gun: nonconformist, the film with Chris Pratt then takes the place of this one Mission Impossible 7, starting July 23, 2021. You Tomorrow war holds this still coveted niche, but that’s without counting the new postponement to July 2020 From Top Gun: nonconformistwhich now places it at July 2, 2021…That is, too close Tomorrow’s war to avoid competition between the two films, both distributed by Paramount.
An XXL purchase for Amazon
Tomorrow’s war it cost $200 million and was designed for movie theaters, where it is now a real headache to find a release date for it. It is therefore proposed to streaming platforms at the end of 2020, e Amazon purchases distribution rights to the film from Skydance and Paramount in April 2021 For 200 million dollars, the equivalent of its production budget, for its Prime Video platform. It was at the time one of the most expensive films ever purchased from a streaming platform.
Director Chris McKay he had declared, regarding his film and his thwarted destiny, moving from cinema to SVOD :
Evidently it was a film that we intended to bring to the cinema, this was the intention and this is how we shot it: like a blockbuster, we gave it our all. I know it can be seen on the big screen, I’ve seen it on the big screen: it’s a good film, spectacular, exciting, but there’s a compromise to be made. Today we live in a world where when you have a great original science fiction film, there are a lot of very popular franchise films that come out in theaters weekend after weekend… So be a filmmaker who can engage with audiences of 240 territories. at the same time it is also a very exciting proposition and I feel very lucky.
Therefore Tomorrow’s war then he goes out July 2, 2021 on Prime Video, where it broke records and even became the most watched film of summer 2021 all streaming platforms combined.
Source: Cine Serie
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