A brand new trailer for the All You Want is Kill anime movie adaptation simply dropped, and the film is definitely shaping as much as be an unimaginable interpretation of its supply materials.

First printed in 2004, Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s gentle novel All You Want is Kill tells the story of a younger soldier who dies on the battlefield however quickly finds themselves caught in a time loop that permits them to progressively hone their fight expertise. If that sounds shockingly acquainted to you, it’s as a result of All You Want Is Kill was beforehand tailored into the live-action movie, Fringe of Tomorrow (additionally identified by the much better title, Stay, Die, Repeat). Although the Tom Cruise automobile is a improbable sci-fi motion film in its personal proper, it lacks a number of the parts that helped make the novel so particular. Particularly, Fringe of Tomorrow modified the e-book’s ending (to combined outcomes), its title (to horrible outcomes), and was solely influenced by the unimaginable paintings that Yoshitoshi Abe contributed to the e-book.

Together with retaining the sunshine novel’s title (a simply transfer, my liege), earlier previews of the variation confirmed that the film will stick a bit nearer to Abe’s visible model (with some nice alterations and reinterpretations thrown in). Whereas it had beforehand been instructed that the film may also stick nearer to a number of the e-book’s main story beats, it ought to definitely be famous that this film will seemingly play out from the attitude of Rita somewhat than Keiji (who Cruise loosely performed in Fringe of Tomorrow). With out diving into spoilers, that might imply that the variation may also make some modifications to the novel’s ending, although it’s extra probably that the shift can be used to assist arrange that intestine punch of a finale.

Whatever the eventual specifics, this film definitely appears to be like like a fairly unimaginable mix of darkish, hermetic storytelling and misleadingly shiny visuals and sounds. The unhealthy information is that we nonetheless don’t know when (or if) it’ll obtain a world launch. Hopefully, we’ll be taught a bit extra in regards to the roll out plan as All You Want is Kill nears its Jan. 9, 2026, Japanese theatrical launch date.