Cruise! Diaz! Spy Comedy! 'Wichita' (?!)
Filed under: Action, Comedy, Romance, Casting, Deals, RumorMonger, 20th Century Fox, Tom Cruise
Don't hold your breath, but Tommy Boy may have chosen his next project. Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz "are in advanced negotiations" to star in an action comedy currently titled Wichita, according to Variety. Cruise is notoriously
If all goes well for 20th Century Fox, the idea is to throw the movie into the summer 2010 maelstrom. Fox already has The A-Team, Gulliver's Travels, and Predator set for the season. The bigger question is how Cruise would handle the role. The character he would play is described as "a secret agent who pops in and out of the life of a single woman." The movie is described as having "several action scenes," so it sounds like it would lean more on comedy and romance. The sole time Cruise has tried to be funny and romantic was his Academy Award-nominated performance 13 years ago in Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire. Cruise looks very good when he's running, and can play stoic and stiff in his sleep, but comedy is basically an undiscovered country for him.
The secondary question is James Mangold, who is set to direct. He has mad skills with actors (Girl, Interrupted, Walk the Line), but his only previous romantic comedy was Kate & Leopold with Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman in 2001, which, alas, I haven't seen. Cameron Diaz is a definite asset as a comedic actress. Still, I'm wondering: is this a recipe for disaster?
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5-28-2009 @ 6:11PM
skerns said...
I live in Wichita (Kansas), and if they're going to do this, it needs to be filmed in the title town.
The television film "The Hunt for the BTK Killer"was filmed in Nova Scotia and Canada, and had NO local landmarks to "indentify" our town.
Not Cool.
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5-29-2009 @ 2:26PM
ssa said...
TC rocked in Tropic Thunder so this is cool. With studios lining up for him he has yet to choose another project I read so Im hoping its the Matarese.
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6-01-2009 @ 9:37PM
john said...
Cameron Diaz, Awesome, but Tom Cruise is nothing but a wash out that thinks butt cracks are stairways to god, Geez and people call me strange!
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