Tom Cruise Rejected From Top Gun Sequel
Tom Cruise will not be reprising his role in a new “Top Gun” movie, according to a representative from Paramount.
Earlier this week, speculation grew that the actor would appear in a sequel, 22 years after the original was first released.
However, the rumours have been shot down by a spokesperson at the production company behind the movie who told Access Hollywood there was “no way” Cruise would be returning to the role.
The new movie would have seen his character Maverick returning to Top Gun school as a flight instructor.
Tom Cruise to Star in “Top Gun” Sequel?
Tom Cruise is set to reprise his role as the world’s most famous fighter pilot for a sequel of “Top Gun“.The actor has been asked to reprise his role as cocky fighter-pilot Maverick, 22 years after the first film.
Hollywood writers have penned a script to take off where Maverick’s reckless days left the trainee, testing the patience of his flying instructor.
“The idea is Maverick is at the Top Gun school as an instructor – and this time it is he who has to deal with a cocky new female pilot,” a source tells The Sun.
Top Gun also launched the career of Val Kilmer, 48, who played Iceman. Continue Reading…
Tom Cruise War Movie “Valkyrie” Set For February Release
A movie in which Tom Cruise, 46, plays a true-life German Second World War hero will not reach screens till February 2009, the producers said as Germans were getting ready to mark the 64th anniversary of the anti-Hitler plot.
“Valkyrie” was meant to launch this summer as public interest grows in the failed bid to assassinate the Nazi dictator on July 20, 1944.
The German armed forces revere the chief plotter, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, as a paragon of self-initiative and courage, and are set to hold a torchlit parade on Sunday in Berlin in his memory.
The July 20 Plot on Hitler’s life is one of the most heroic but least known episodes of World War II. Severely wounded in combat, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg returns from Africa to join the German Resistance and help create Operation Valkyrie, the complex plan that will allow a shadow government to replace Hitler’s once he is dead. But fate and circumstance conspire to thrust Stauffenberg from one of many in the plot to a double-edged central role. Not only must he lead the coup and seize contrl of his nation’s government… He must kill Hitler himself. Continue Reading…
Will Smith Wants To Team Up With Tom Cruise In Future Movie
Will Smith is planning to make a film with Tom Cruise.
The “Hancock” actor revealed he has been trying to find a suitable project for them to star in, but has so far been unsuccessful.
Will said:
“Me and Tom have to work together. I think that would just be genius. We have been pitching some ideas back and forth and trying to find a movie that will be big enough for both of us.”
The actor ” who is close friends with the “Top Gun” actor and his wife Katie Holmes ” also said Tom is a “warm-hearted” person.
Will has also expressed an interest in teaming up with “There Will Be Blood” actor Daniel Day Lewis.
He added:
“He is a beast. I want to work with people who are going to force me to bring my game up.”
‘Hancock’, also starring Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman, sees Will’s alcoholic superhero character employ a PR expert to improve his image.
Phillip Noyce to direct Tom Cruise’s ‘Edwin A. Salt’
Phillip Noyce is in talks to direct Tom Cruise in spy thriller ”Edwin A. Salt,” reports Variety.
”Edwin A. Salt” casts Cruise as a CIA officer who’s accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy. He must avoid capture long enough to clear his name.
Cruise has long been attached to the Kurt Wimmer script, which has seen two directors, Terry George and Peter Berg, depart the project in recent months.
Producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Sunil Perkash will oversee the film for Columbia Pictures.
Tom Cruise will re-shoot some ”Valkyrie” scenes
According to Variety – Peter Bart’s blog, Tom Cruise will shoot the three final scenes on “Valkyrie”. Those scenes will be shooting in North Africa.
”Although the film has yet to be completed, several people I trust have seen “Valkyrie” and testify that it’s a superb thriller. “Bryan Singer is back in form”, Peter Bart says.
”Valkyrie” is now scheduled for release Feb. 13.
Tom Cruise to play the President in ‘28th Amendment’!?
Moviehole.com have reported that Tom Cruise could be going to the White House after being in talks to star in the upcoming film, ‘28th Amendment‘ directed by Phillip Noyce (‘Clear and Present Danger‘, ‘Patriot Games‘).If the Cruiser signs on the dotted line, he’ll star as none other than head of the US who uncovers a secret committee (led by Denzel Washington) that has had control of his country since WWII. Their main tactic is to knock off anyone who stirs up trouble, and with President Cruise uncovering their secret he finds himself becoming the next target.
The film is written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (both of whom penned ‘MI: III‘, ‘Transformers‘, ‘Star Trek’) so expect a hectic and gripping thriller on the way.
Whilst seeing Cruise in the oval office but be interesting, what’s really getting our attention is Denzel Washington stepping into what could be another nasty role, ‘Training Day‘ and ‘American Gangster‘ just isn’t enough, we want him ordering henchman to kill the president as well (in the fictional sense of course).
Update:
The rumours are true : Tom Cruise is in talks to star in the new Phillip Noyce flick, “28th Amendment”, confirmed today.
Tom Cruise Might Take Another Mission: Impossible
It appears Tom Cruise is considering another box office “Mission.”Cruise has been in talks with Paramount over a fourth installment to the “Mission: Impossible” franchise, sources confirmed to Access Hollywood.
Cruise made his super agent debut as Ethan Hunt in “Mission: Impossible” in 1996. The film went on to gross $467 million worldwide at the box office.
Four years later, “Mission: Impossible II” hauled in $545 million at the global box office, while “Mission: Impossible III” dipped a bit in 2006, but still managed an impressive $395 million haul.
Paramount produced all three films.
Cruise and Paramount CEO Sumner Redstone had a very public falling out in 2006, when the studio ended its longstanding relationship with Cruise’s production company, which he runs along with Paula Wagner.
However, Cruise and Redstone have reportedly been spotted dining together recently in Los Angeles.
Upcoming for Cruise on the big screen is “Valkyrie,” the WWII-themed drama based on a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
Brad Pitt to replace Tom Cruise in ‘Mission Impossible’?
Tom Cruise has reportedly held discussions with Paramount about making Mission: Impossible 4.
It was rumoured that movie bosses wanted Brad Pitt to step into the franchise to replace Cruise’s Ethan Hunt character.
Cruise exited Paramount in 2006 after falling out with Sumner Redstone, chairman of the studio’s parent company Viacom.
Redstone said the firm terminated its deal with Cruise due to the underperformance of Mission: Impossible III (2006) (which had been expected to gross $100-$150 million more than it did), which he attributed to Cruise’s “bad behavior”.
Cruise set up his own studio, United Artists, with producing partner Paula Wagner later that year but has experienced mixed fortunes as CEO.
Tom Cruise’s Son Connor to Appear in Film
The 13-year-old son of Tom Cruise, Connor is following in his father’s footsteps.
Connor Cruise, the adopted son of Tom Cruise and ex-wife Nicole Kidman, has a minor, non-speaking part in the upcoming Will Smith drama “Seven Pounds,” a spokesman for Columbia Pictures confirmed Tuesday.
Connor Cruise shot his part over two days more than a month ago, playing Smith as a young man and mostly shown in photographs.
The movie, which is still in production, co-stars Rosario Dawson and is directed by “The Pursuit of Happyness” filmmaker Gabriele Muccino. The drama follows the story of a man who affects the lives of seven strangers.
Calls and e-mails to publicists for Kidman and Tom Cruise were not immediately returned Tuesday.
Cruise and Kidman also have an adopted daughter, 15-year-old Isabella. Kidman is pregnant with her first child with hubby singer Keith Urban.
