Joseph Kosinski's follow up to Tron: Legacy, has moved from Disney and is now a 100million dollar production at Universal Studios, and Deadline have confirmed that Tom Cruise will headline the movie. The film, a post-apocalyptic sci-fi where humans live in the sky above a decimated Earth, begins production later in the year and despite the huge budget, will only be the second movie for Kosinski. Whilst it's great that he's getting to work on his own script with a big budget, there is the question as to whether Tom Cruise is the draw he used to be. Is he just too cringeworthy? I suppose Mission Impossible 4 will answer that - although I expect that to be great with Brad Bird involved. He was recently connected to the now-dead At The Mountains Of Madness with Guillermo Del Toro, a film that was dropped in place of monster movie Pacific Rim. Deadline report that Cruise could still work with Del Toro and star in Pacific Rim, but there's no other news on that yet.
This could go either way - we could be seeing a big comeback for Cruise, or more than one flop with him at the forefront.......
