Tom Cruise might have simply discovered his subsequent non-“Mission: Unimaginable” film, and his resolution appears to mark a turning level a few of us have been ready years to see.
In response to a report from Deadline, Cruise has agreed to star in a brand new film from “Birdman” and “The Revenant” director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, which has Warner Bros. and Legendary Leisure in negotiations to distribute and produce. Iñárritu wrote the script with Sabina Berman, in addition to the writing staff of Alexander Dinelaris and Nicolas Giacobone, who co-wrote 2014’s “Birdman or (The Surprising Advantage of Ignorance),” however plot particulars are being stored beneath lock and key for the time being. The one factor confirmed right now is that it will likely be an authentic story. (Apologies to anybody hoping to see what an Iñárritu-directed “Fringe of Tomorrow 2” would possibly appear to be.)
This will probably be the director’s first English-language film since “The Revenant” in 2015 (his most up-to-date characteristic was 2022’s Spanish-language “Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths”), and Cruise’s first film outdoors of the “Mission: Unimaginable” and “High Gun” franchises since 2017’s “American Made.”
I loved “The Revenant,” however broadly talking, I am not an enormous fan of Iñárritu as a storyteller. “Bardo” is extra of a cinematic remedy session than a conventional narrative, and “Birdman” has some really obnoxious moments in it, however on the similar time, he is additionally a filmmaker with a transparent imaginative and prescient who is ready to seize glimpses of greatness. Do not forget that Leonardo DiCaprio received his solely Oscar for starring in Iñárritu’s “The Revenant” — may Cruise be subsequent?
Welcome to the brand new Tom Cruise period
Even when Cruise doesn’t stroll away from this expertise with an Oscar, it is extremely thrilling that he is made the choice to widen his aperture and begin working with auteur filmmakers once more after so a few years working with the identical very small group of administrators. When Cruise signed his manufacturing cope with Warner Bros. not too long ago, I used to be holding out hope that deal meant he was lastly prepared to stretch himself as a performer and step away from the massive motion tent-poles he is been making currently. Do not get me fallacious: I really like the “Mission: Unimaginable” motion pictures, and I believe guys like Christopher McQuarrie and Doug Liman have made some unbelievable movies. However Cruise constructed his celebrity profession by bouncing from main auteur to main auteur, and one take a look at his IMDb web page confirms that for the previous 20 years, he is been pretty stagnant with regards to working with administrators who would possibly push him to new dramatic heights (versus simply bodily ones).
I am hopeful that this collaboration with Iñárritu marks the start of a brand new section of Cruise’s profession — one the place he absolutely embraces working with a bunch of thrilling new voices and displaying audiences he is involved in doing extra than simply hanging off the aspect of planes. I would adore it if he continued to blow our minds with a brand new motion film each few years … however I would adore it much more if he gave us some completely different flavors in between. He is too good of an actor to get locked in the identical zone for the remainder of his profession.
/Movie will deliver you extra about this venture as quickly as we hear it.