The agreement the WGA made for some of the strike writers to return to work for the late night talk shows in the U.S. has opened up a whole new can of worms, as now Tom Cruise and his United Artists studio are in talks hoping to find an agreement for writers to work on interim projects for them.

According to the article in The Hollywood Reporter it’s not just UA, but smaller Indie outfits are currently going through similar talks.

If an agreement can be reached it would be extremely notable because it would be the first film to be actually in the writing stage to be allowed any movement during this strike and it also would mean that work could begin on the Oliver Stone project PINKVILLE which was delayed in November because the script simply wasn’t ready to shoot.

That movie you may recall was to star Bruce Willis, Woody Harrelson, Channing Tatum, Michael Pena, Michael Pitt, John Ortiz, Jason Behr, Xzibit and Toby Jones in a re-telling of the My Lai Massacre, where several hundred Vietnamese civilians were killed by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam war.