Variety just sent out an interesting note saying Tom Cruise is in talks to star alongside Denzel Washington in The Matarese Circle for director David Cronenberg.
The film is an adaptation of the Robert Ludlum thriller scripted by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas (Wanted). In the film Cruise would go head-to-head with Washington as two bitter enemy spies who, after spending two decades trying to kill one another, find themselves in the crosshairs of the Matarese, a powerful group at the root of a conspiracy. The script contemporizes Ludlum’s original Cold War premise.
By the sound of it this sounds like it is pretty much a done deal with things coming together quickly with an expected release in 2010.
I gotta say, the prospect interests me a lot as I remain a loyal Cruise fan and you can rarely argue with Denzel or Cronenberg.
