And THR has learned that Warners is again talking to the actor for the lead in its big-budget sci-fi war pic We Mortals Are (aka All You Need Is Kill), being directed by Doug Liman.
Plot - "The story in All You Need Is Kill follows a soldier pressed into battle on Earth against a superior alien species called 'Mimics', then gets killed in action, but is stuck in a time loop and relives his last day over and over. Eventually, he sees things change, he becomes a better warrior and discovers hints that might be the key to altering the outcome."
Basically the movie sounds like Bill Murray's
Groundhog Day, minus the groundhog, and add in the aliens. I look forward to seeing the movie, and secretly wouldn't mind watching Tom Cruise get killed over and over again, just to try again and again to save the world from an alien invasion. Hopefully each death scene is creative. The going back in time premise in order to change the outcome will probably remind a lot of movie goers of Jake Gyllenhaal's
Source Code.
Looks like Tom Cruise's career is finally starting to recover as the actor is now attached to at least four potential tent-pole films. The actor still holds a significant draw to the international markets and the lack of young male leads surfacing that show any real true star power has lead big studios coming back for his services. The actor has had to mend his reputation which took quite a hit around 2005 when he jumped like a lunatic on Oprah's couch to pronounce his love for soon to be wife, Katie Holmes. He also didn't help matters when he became more public about his love for his pseudo-religion Scientology, and his detest for psychiatry.
He began the recovery with an unexpected comedic role in Ben Stiller's funny, but overrated
Tropic Thunder. He followed up that role with starring roles in the under-performing
Valkyrie and
Knight and Day.
Like I said things are turning around for the actor, he landed the much seeked after role of Jack Reacher in
One Shot for Paramount. He also landed a role in
Rock of Ages a movie adapted from the popular Broadway musical. And of course the fourth movie in the
Mission Impossible franchise will be out in December. That movie could be the litmus test to see how much of Cruise's appeal has returned, or not.
We Are Mortals isn't expected to hit theaters until 2013, and will be directed by Doug Liman.
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