Okay, this film just hit the top of the charts for me. Tom Cruise and Spielberg working together for War of the Worlds wasn’t even remotely close to this interesting as Cruise is now set to star in the recently announced WWII thriller for director Bryan Singer with production set to begin this summer.
Cruise will star in the film which is based on actual events, as German generals hatch a scheme to assassinate Adolph Hitler at the height of WWII. Chris McQuarrie wrote the script with Nathan Alexander.
“After reading the script, Tom and I knew immediately that this was a film we had to make,” Wagner told Variety. “As an added bonus, because of Bryan Singer’s involvement and Tom’s admiration for him as a filmmaker as well as the excellence of the script, the project attracted Tom as an actor. I cannot think of a more perfect combination of creative elements for our second production.”
While the thriller is framed in Europe during WWII, it is a relatively inexpensive film compared with the tentpoles that Singer has directed recently. It also has the ensemble character intrigue present in The Usual Suspects.
Despite rumors that Singer’s follow-up to Superman Returns might be scrapped the article goes on to say that this film will only fill the void before he gets underway on the next Superman film for Warner Bros. and Legendary.
