Edge of Groundhog trailer proves Edge of Tomorrow is Groundhog Day with aliens

Both movies see protagonist living the same day over and over

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From the moment the plot synopsis dropped for Tom Cruise's latest action vehicle Edge of Tomorrow, the similarities with Groundhog Day were clear, but now the two films have been fused into one trailer its clear just how interchangeable their plots are.

One may be a 2014 high octane sci-fi CGI fest, the other a classic 90s romcom, but the main thrust is the same: Man lives same day over and over, eventually gets better at it.

Slate laid the music and dialogue from the Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt movie over the events of the Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell comedy, and they sync up almost perfectly.

There's the slow burn love story, the moments where the protagonist gives up and dies only to be reborn, and their mission to master something over repeated days (though in Bill's case it was ice sculpture, in Tom's case saving humanity).

Edge of Tomorrow is based on the novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, so it didn't directly plagiarise the film, but still it's a shame it wasn't adapted as Groundhog Day 2, Bill Murray in a robotic spacesuit is something the world needs to see.