Since Mission Impossible III finished filming late last year, Tom Cruise has had no acting roles on his schedule as he has devoted his time to his soon to be wife and mother of his child Katie Holmes.

Well apparentaly he is ready to return to acting and has three projects lined up that he is interested in pursuing…..

First up is the Indie movie Lions for Lambs, a political drama focused on a group of U.S. soldiers based in Afghanistan with Robert Redford attached to direct. He is being lined up to play a journalist in the movie which is apparentaly his favourite of the three.

Next up is The Ha-Ha where he would play a mute Gulf War veteran who takes care of a 9 year old child whose mother has gone missing.

And lastly is Spike Lee’s Selling Time which is described as being “about a man who sells back chunks of time in his life for a chance to relive and change the worst day of his life”.

I love the sound of Spike Lee’s movie, I hope he choses to shoot that in the near future, I’m not too bothered about the other two which quite frankly sound like bore-fests. I think Tom Cruise is great and is one of my favourite actors of all time (if not my favourite), I hate to see the bad press he has been getting lately but he really does bring it on himself.

If I was his agent, I would seriously advise him to push Judd Apatow to direct a comedy movie together which was talked about a few months back. It would really do wonders for his career and ease him back onto the “good side” of audiences.

source – variety, coming soon