Universal Moves OBLIVION Starring Tom Cruise Up to April 26, 2013

Published Mar 15, 2012

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis.

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DirectorJoseph Kosinski’s (Tron: Legacy) sci-fi pic Oblivion will be arriving a few months earlier next year.Deadline reports that Universal has shifted theTom Cruise-frontedOblivion up to April 26th, 2013 from a previous release date of July 10th. There are currently no other film slated for that April weekend, butThe Evil Dead remake opens a couple weeks earlier. No reason is given for the release date shift, but another Cruise film,One Shot, was recently moved up from early 2013 to December of this year.

InOblivion, Cruiseplays a veteran soldier who’s banished to the surface of a post-apocalyptic Earth and tasked with repairing ships that hunt down the aliens who destroyed our planet. When a mysterious woman (Andrea Riseborough) crash-lands nearby, their encounter sets off an eye-opening chain of events. The cast also includesMorgan Freeman,Olga Kurylenko andGame of Thrones’Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Production on the film just began in Louisiana.