Tom Cruise to star in Alejandro Iñárritu’s new film – The Hollywood Reporter

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Tom Cruise will star in the new movie… The return Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Hollywood Reporter He confirmed it.

Warner Bros. is conducting and Legendary Entertainment are in talks to acquire the package, which marks Iñárritu’s first English-language film since starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The return Nearly a decade ago.

Plot details are being kept under wraps for the narrative project written by Iñárritu, Sabina Berman, Alexandre Dinelaris and Nicholas Giacobone.

The project comes after Cruise signed a great (but not exclusive) deal with Warner Bros. last month, leading to widespread speculation about what the agreement would entail. This feature also fits with rumors that Cruise is keen to work with the creators after spending most of the last decade on franchise projects, including Mission: Impossible movies and Top Gun: MaverickAll at Paramount. Cruise is currently working on his next one a task The film and is still developing a much-hyped feature that will be shot in space for Universal and director Doug Liman.

Iñárritu last directed the Spanish-language Netflix drama Bardo. Before that, the director was in theaters with The returnWhich grossed more than $500 million at the global box office and won the Academy Award for Best Director. This came after it won the awards for Best Film, Director, and Best Original Film of 2015 Flying Man or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance).

Cruise has been nominated twice for Best Actor, for Oliver Stone He was born on the 4th of July (1990) and Cameron Crowe Jerry Maguire (1997), and once for supporting actor in a Paul Thomas Anderson film Magnolia (2000). Iñárritu guided DiCaprio to Oscar gold The return It helped Michael Keaton get a Best Actor nomination Birdman. The pairing of Cruise and the director is sure to raise the idea that the actor is hoping to land a prestigious play.

Meanwhile, Warners has bolstered its feature slate with top talent in recent months, locking down Ryan Coogler’s next feature and greenlighting a Paul Thomas Anderson film with Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star. Legendary and Warners will be in theaters next weekend Sand dunes 2a sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s science fiction epic.

The cruise is repped by CAA and Greenberg Glusker. Iñárritu is represented by CAA and Gang Tire.

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