Tom Cruise has signed on to star in a currently untitled new film from the Acadamy Award-winning film director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, according to Deadline.
The project, which is still reportedly being negotiated with Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures, would be Iñárritu's first English language film since The Revenant (2015). It is also the first new film announced for Cruise since he and Warner Bros. agreed on a strategic partnership last month.
Iñárritu's 2014 film Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. His most recent film, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, was released on Netflix in 2022.
Although details of the new film remain secret, it has been confirmed that Iñárritu is co-writing the script with Sabina Berman. He will also be reunited with Birdman writers Alexander Dinelaris and Nicolas Giacobone. As well as starring, Cruise will also produce, most likely alongside Legendary.
Deadline reports that Cruise was one of the first A-list actors that Iñárritu met with about his new film, with the Mexican filmmaker's latest project appealing to him as he looked for his next cinematic outing.
Cruise's recent films include Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) and Top Gun: Maverick (2022). The latter grossed almost $1.5 billion at the global box office, and is Cruise's most successful film to date. The American actor has also starred in Academy Award-winning films such as Barry Levinson's Rain Man (1988), and has been nominated for an acting Oscar three times in his career.
Cruise's agreement with Warner Bros. is non-exclusive, meaning he is still able to work for other studios. As such, planned sequels to both Top Gun: Maverick and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One are unlikely to be directly affected.
