Tom Cruise May Take His Cinematic Intensity Underwater

In 2015, screenwriter Max Landis sold his then-newest script Deeper to David Goyer’s accumulation company, Phantom Four. Despite MGM picking it up the pursuing year, nothing’s truly travel of the task since then. Various A-list stars similar Bradley Cooper, Idris Elba, and Gal Gadot were attached earlier dropping retired earlier being impeded further by allegations of intersexual assault against Landis successful 2017. Now, it seems that the task is coming backmost to beingness erstwhile again, this clip via Tom Cruise and Doug Liman.

Liman precocious hosted a screening of the upcoming documentary Gaucho Gaucho, where helium told Showbiz411 helium and Cruise were collaborating connected a “scary movie,” thing helium said neither helium oregon Cruise person ever done before. (Damn, leave The Mummy reboot retired to dry, huh?) As ComingSoon noted, the Cruise/Liman reunion was archetypal reported earlier this twelvemonth by Daniel Richtmann, who claimed Warner Bros. Discovery would nutrient the film, arsenic the studio’s already moving with Cruise connected Judy, his upcoming collaboration with Alejandro G. Iñàrritu.

In lawsuit you’ve forgotten, the crippled of Deeper (at least, arsenic it was backmost successful the day) centers connected a shamed NASA astronaut who’s gone underwater to cheque retired a recently discovered oceanic trench believed to beryllium the caller lowest constituent connected the planet. During his trek, the astronaut ends up successful a conflict of carnal and intelligence wits against “mysterious forces.” It’s been antecedently likened to The Martian and Gravity in presumption of tone, and you gotta that examination inactive holds h2o nowadays. We’ve seen Tom Cruise instrumentality the plunge before, but if this movie is yet happening, it whitethorn beryllium awhile earlier we spot it: betwixt Judy, Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning, and launching his ain ass to space for his and Liman’s other movie, he’s beauteous busy.

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