Source: Variety
Variety is reporting that Tom Cruise is to headline director Bryan Singer’s untitled WWII thriller. The production is expected to start this summer.
UA partners Cruise and Wagner made a deal last week for the film, which is the first original project teaming Singer and screenwriter Chris McQuarrie since The Usual Suspects.
The thriller is based on actual events, as German generals hatch a scheme to assassinate Adolph Hitler at the height of WWII.
Cruise and Wagner quickly agreed to set the film as UA’s second production commitment. The first is Lions for Lambs, the Robert Redford-directed drama that stars Redford, Cruise and Meryl Streep. That film, written by Matthew Michael Carnahan (The Kingdom), will be released Nov. 9 by MGM.
Singer, who is in the early stages of mounting a sequel to Superman Returns, was able to fit it in before the Man of Steel is ready to take off again for Warner Bros. and Legendary.
