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Much like the very basis of the film, the Edge of Tomorrow sequel seems to be stuck in its very own time loop, where time passes but nothing ever changes.

Conflicting reports on the stage of development (or lack thereof) on Edge of Tomorrow 2 (or Live Die Repeat and Repeat, which it may or may not still be called) have been floating around since 2018. It seemed as though things were finally moving on the long-awaited sequel when Matthew Robinson was hired as a writer in March 2019. But later on that year, director Doug Liman revealed that he has "no idea" if the movie will actually get made.

But then in January 2020, an update was given that shone a light of hope on the project. Of course, since then, we find ourselves in a state of general world calamity, and there have been no updates since that January comment.

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If it does actually happen, what can we expect from the long-gestating sequel?

Edge of Tomorrow 2 release date: Why all the delays?

If we're honest, we're not clearer to knowing when the sequel will be hitting cinemas, so here's a breakdown of its lengthy development so far.

At the start of 2018, it looked like the sequel would be the next movie that Liman would work on. And in March 2018, Liman confirmed that he was working on a rewrite of the script with Jez Butterworth, who helped with the first movie.

The problem was that everyone was a bit too busy to film it at that time, and the sequel will only happen when everyone can do it.

"They asked me to do [it] two months before I started Mary Poppins. Tom [Cruise] was like, 'Can you go this autumn?' and I was like, 'No, I can't go, I'm playing Mary Poppins for like a year, dude! I can't do Edge of Tomorrow'," Emily Blunt recalled.

In September 2018, writer Christopher McQuarrie responded to a fan's question on Twitter about the status of Live Die Repeat and Repeat. "We're working on it. No idea how or when it will happen," he replied.

And then the next update came in March 2019 as we noted above. Even though the original idea for the sequel might have changed, Robinson will be developing the script with Liman.

Liman confirmed in October 2019 that "the script is ready", adding that he hoped the sequel would film after Tom Cruise has finished working on Mission: Impossible 7 and 8.

He told Collider: "Between my schedule, Tom [Cruise]'s schedule, and Emily [Blunt]'s schedule, it's tough. Certainly, it's a world that I love, and like with [his TV show] Impulse, there's a lot more story to be told."

That means we can expect some wait still for Edge of Tomorrow 2 if it happens, but the director is still working on the sequel though, revealing his planning stages on Instagram in early January 2020.

Edge of Tomorrow 2 plot: What will it be about?

Perhaps given the first movie's complex timey-wimey plot, the original concept for the sequel was one you had to get your head around.

"First of all the story is so amazing – much better than the original film, and I loved the original film – and second of all, it's a sequel that's a prequel," Liman enthused, and he expanded on it to Digital Spy.

"If I'm going to do a sequel for the first time in my life I want to make it the opposite of what you'd expect from a sequel and we found a story that does that," he explained.

It's not yet clear how much Matthew Robinson's idea for the sequel differs from that, but with Liman having worked on the script as well, we don't expect the approach to have changed too much.

Before the change of writer, Liman spoke about believing that a sequel should be "smaller", adding: "I don't need an action sequence every two minutes."

If you need a quick refresher, the first movie ended with Major William Cage (Cruise) defeating the Omega that controls the aliens, seemingly dying in the process – although he floats towards the Omega's time-travel-permitting blood.

Cage then wakes up before his first meeting with General Brigham (Brendan Gleeson) when he was sent to France to battle the aliens.

A news report states that all alien activity has ceased following a mysterious surge in Paris and Cage goes to Heathrow to find Sergeant Rita Vrataski (Blunt) who, unsurprisingly, looks like she's never met him before because – in this timeline – she hasn't.

Edge of Tomorrow 2 cast: Who's coming back?

Cruise and Blunt will be back, but it's been reported that they won't sign on for sure until they like the script, which is fair enough.

Liman has been teasing another character who will be critical for the sequel, maybe even as much as its two leads: "There's a third character in the sequel that's going to, for sure, steal the movie."

But, again, since the writer has changed, who knows if this character still exists?

Sadly, Bill Paxton passed away in 2017, so it remains to be seen if the sequel will recast his character, Master Sergeant Farell. Given the time loop ending of the first movie, any of the original characters could come back, whatever happened to them in the first movie.

Edge of Tomorrow 2 trailer: When will it land?

Given all the delays with the project, we'll just be happy for the sequel to actually start shooting and even that feels a long way away yet.

So, in other words, a trailer won't be surfacing any time soon.

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