Tom Cruise Must Save the World, Again, In His New WB Movie

After years of playing hypercompetent men who often prevention the world, Tom Cruise has jumped vessel from Paramount implicit to Warner Bros. to…play a hypercompetent man who volition prevention the world.

On Friday, Deadline provided a little crippled synopsis for Cruise’s upcoming, presently untitled movie he’s making with Alejandro G. Iñàrritu. According to the outlet, the movie focuses connected “the astir almighty antheral successful the world,” and aft unleashing a catastrophe connected the world, it falls to him to beryllium his worthy and halt it. That’s a precise ominous premise, astir of each due to the fact that it’s unclear what said devastation is and whether oregon not helium afloat meant to enactment it retired successful the satellite successful the archetypal place. And what makes Cruise’s quality the astir almighty of them all? We’ll person to hold and find out.

Along with the logline, Deadline revealed a acceptable of actors to articulation the film. Our supporing formed includes Anatomy of a Fall’s Sandra Hüller, Killers of the Flower Moon’s Jesse Plemons, Sophie Wilde (Talk to Me), John Goodman (Righteous Gemstones), and Michael Stuhlbarg (Bones and All). There’s different imaginable get successful Riz Ahmed (Nimona), who’s presently said to beryllium successful talks for the project. Like overmuch other astir the film, their roles successful the communicative are tightly nether wraps.

Whatever Iñàrritu and Cruise’s movie is, it’ll beryllium a large deal. Cruise teamed with WB successful January to make and nutrient films, some of the archetypal and franchise variety. As the archetypal movie of this caller endeavor, this marks a important constituent successful his career. Maybe this leads to revisiting immoderate fan favourite flicks, oregon possibly helium attempts to situation himself with newer material. Either way, colour america funny successful what he’ll bash adjacent connected the large screen.

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