Michael Fleming at Variety has put together a snazzy piece on what films we find our good friend Tom Cruise and without wasting any additional space explaining the situation here is the breakdown.
The Matarese Circle: Directed by David Cronenberg and co-starring Denzel Washington this is an adaptation of the Robert Ludlum thriller of the same name. 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.
The Tourist: The Spyglass remake that would co-star Charlize Theron. A rewrite was turned in this week by Christopher McQuarrie. In the film Theron will play a female Interpol agent who uses an American tourist (Cruise) in an attempt to flush out an elusive criminal with whom she once had an affair.
Motorcade: A Len Wiseman (Live Free or Die Hard) directed DreamWorks thriller that pits the U.S. president against terrorists who commandeer his motorcade on the streets of Los Angeles. Billy Ray is racing to complete a rewrite of the script, with Cruise’s input.
Lost for Words: A Working Title romantic comedy in which Cruise would play an actor who gets into a love triangle with his beautiful Chinese director and the filmmaker’s jealous translator. The film will be directed by Susanne Bier, with Ziyi Zhang attached to play the fictional filmmaker. Cruise would be replacing Hugh Grant.
Wichita: A possible team-up with Cameron Diaz, playing an undercover agent who gets thrown together with a woman who has man trouble.
Hardy Men: I mentioned this in the last movie production update. Ed Solomon (Men in Black) is doing a rewrite on this potential Ben Stiller/Tom Cruise feature taking a comic riff on the classic young-adult mystery novels, “The Hardy Boys,” which revolved around the mystery-solving efforts of teenagers Frank and Joe Hardy, amateur detectives who often helped their father, a private investigator. The film adaptation would explore the reunion of the estranged, grown-up brothers, who work together to solve a new mystery.
The Champions: A feature adaptation of the British TV series about a team of government agents rescued from a plane crash in the Himalayas by an advanced civilization and given superhuman abilities. Valkyrie scripter Christopher McQuarrie is writing.
And there you have it.
