Another huge story to hit the trades tonight!
Variety say Tom Cruise is in talks to join the already cast Denzel Washington in THE MATARESE CIRLCE, the Robert Ludlum (BOURNE series) thriller that David Cronenberg will make next.
Do I really need to say anymore, surely your sold already?
The MGM thriller which will go into production later this year will find Cruise and Washington as bitter enemy spies who come together after two decades of trying to kill each other in order to stop the powerful Matarese group in root of a conspiracy.
WANTED and 3:10 TO YUMA scribes Michael Brandt and Derek Haas adapted Ludlum’s novel for screen, contemporising Ludlum’s Cold-War setting.
The movie should be out next year after Cruise has remade THE TOURIST, a thriller over at Spyglass which sees him co-star with Charlize Theron.
Coming off the historical thriller VALKYRIE, Cruise is dismissing my advice of going the comedy route (which worked with TROPIC THUNDER) and hopes to win the hearts of fans in this genre once again.
Cronenberg, always seen as an Indie film-maker whose only real attempt at a commercial movie was A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE a few years ago, will direct his first blockbuster. And how I can’t wait to see what he will do with it.
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cool…! i wanna see Cruise rip apart Denzel! lol
The fact Denzel is in this makes it a must-see. Putting Cruise into it would be more of a favor to Cruise than anyone else. What the hell is Cruise going to do? amaze us all with some more half-assed scenery chewing or yet ANOTHER jump off a skyscraper? Cruise = Lame at this point.
If I were Denzel I’d start charging a fee to these idiots like Russel Crowe and Tony Scott who keep using Denzel’s name recognition to keep their own flagging careers afloat a little longer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfe7EAdxXkY
That pretty much showed just how crazy Washington acts. It’s a good laugh though.
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[...] A bit of a pointless article because it’s common knowledge the two movies that will keep him busy in 2009 are THE TOURIST with Charlize Theron and the David Cronenberg blockbuster THE MATARESE CIRCLE with Denzel Washington. [...]