Tom Cruise is in early talks to star in Joseph Kosinski's next science-fiction film, Oblivion.
It's looking like Universal will be the studio to finance and distribute the hot property, though apparently that's dependent on Kosinski keeping the budget around $100 million.
Oblivion is based on a graphic novel (which in turn was based on an idea by Kosinski), and it got a great deal of interest from studios after Disney let the TRON: Legacy director shop it around.
The post-apocalyptic story sees Earth pretty much uninhabitable, with the majority of the population living in the clouds.
Cruise would play a soldier who services anti-alien droids on Earth, though the film is primarily a love story as it focuses on his relationship with a woman who crash-lands on the near-empty planet.
Promisingly, the script comes from The Departed Oscar-winner William Monahan, and it's currently getting a polish by Karl Gajdusek.
Next up for Cruise (who has wrapped on Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol) is musical Rock of Ages, then he's got a void in his schedule created by the collapse of Guillermo del Toro's At the Mountains of Madness.
Source: Deadline
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BruceShark
Apr 14th 2011, 14:51
The only report i want to here about t*t (sorry Tom) Cruise is that he's either retired or become Jewish.
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Ali1748
Apr 14th 2011, 20:52
Sounds interesting.
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Nickey09
Apr 16th 2011, 3:35
"the collapse of Guillermo del Toro's At the Mountains of Madness." WHAT???!!!
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alexr
Aug 19th 2011, 11:44
This sound like a live-action reboot of WALL-E... I'll watch it if Tom Cruise gets crushed up a little...
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