Finally, Cuba Gooding Jr. is starting to take his career seriously.

After years stuck in the paycheck crap pile which saw it’s pinnacle this year with Daddy Day Camp, Cuba Gooding may have had that revelation moment where he figures something has to change before we all forget that he was once an Oscar winning actor.

What you have forgotten already?

He won it for Jerry Maguire. This was long before such things as Boat Trip, Rat Race, Norbit and yes Daddy Day Camp.

He’s great in a ‘blink and you will miss it’ role in American Gangster, the first of what will hopefully be a new direction for the guy.

Cuba Gooding Jr. has signed to star in John Carter’s action thriller “The Way of War,” playing a paramilitary operative who goes on a rampage after discovering a war conspiracy.

Principal photography begins this week in Baton Rouge, La. Richie Salvatore of Two Sticks Prods., Dave Pomier and Scott Schafer will produce from Schafer’s script. Nick Thurlow, Jordan Kessler and David Orenstein will executive produce.

Director Carter and writer Schafer are a duo who worked on their only movie so far Fatwa, a low budget 90 minute movie, which actually is said to be a complete mess. Hopefully they know what they are doing here and can give the spotlight on Gooding, who I would love to see return with a great knockout lead role.

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