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After it was reported earlier this week that Tom Cruise was circling a role in Quentin Tarantino’s final feature film The Movie Critic, news has broken that the 61-year-old Hollywood icon has signed on to star in the next film from The Revenant director Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
The film, which does not have an official title and whose details are being kept under wraps, will be Iñárritu’s first English-language film since his Leo DiCaprio-starring Oscar winner The Revenant was released back in 2015.
Cruise signing onto Iñárritu’s next project makes good on the reports that the Academy Award-nominated actor is looking to get back into making projects with auteur directors.
The film is being set up at Warner Bros., who recently signed Cruise to a splashy partnership deal earlier in the year.
This project is being treated as top secret, with no plot details available other than it being a new original story written by Iñárritu. What is known is that the Oscar-winning director has been taking meetings with a select few actors in recent weeks, with Cruise being one of the first.
The A-list star has been hungry to find that next project and moved quickly to get a meeting with Iñárritu once he was made aware the director was moving forward with his next big studio film. As soon as the meeting finished, Cruise was on board. [via Deadline]
The last time Cruise starred in a straight-up drama was in 2017 when he led Doug Liman’s American Made. Prior to that, you have to go back to 2012 when he starred in Rock of Ages, and 2008 was he starred in Valkyrie.
Cruise will next be seen starring in the eighth (and potentially final) Mission: Impossible movie, which will be released in the summer of 2025. While the film was originally set to be subtitled Dead Reckoning Part Two, that plan has since changed, likely due to the box office performance of Dead Reckoning Part Two and the delay from 2024 to 2025 due to the actors’ strike.