New Tom Cruise film set to create 500 jobs in UK

London, Aug 4 (ANI): A new Tom Cruise blockbuster, which would be filmed at a UK studio, is set to create 500 new jobs, the UK Chancellor has confirmed.

'All You Need Is Kill', a sci-fi thriller also starring Emily Blunt, will be made at Warner Brothers' 100 million pound studios at Leavesden near Watford, which has been home to some of the biggest film franchises ever created, including James Bond, Star Wars and Harry Potter.

George Osborne announced the project as he appealed to technology firms to invest in the UK as part of the latest in a series of Olympic-inspired business summits.

"Taken together, these major investments represent a triple whammy for Tech City. Coming so quickly after the announcements from Facebook and Amazon, British technology has hit a purple patch," Sky News quoted Osborne, as saying.You will not find a country anywhere in the world that is more open to technology, more open to investment and more open for business," he added.

The film, based on a Japanese novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, is described as a sci-fi version of the superhit film Groundhog Day, in which Cruise will star as a futuristic soldier who becomes caught in a time loop on his last day in battle as he fights a group of invading aliens, the report said. (ANI)