For more than two decades, Tom Cruise was the star blockbusters action film, a far cry from his beginnings as an actor, where he began as a reference in the profession working under the orders of the best filmmakers. However, his return to the franchise Mission Impossible in 2006 this led to everything a series of blockbusters it made him a star who shone more for his gigantic box office numbers than for his own performances. Which gained greater relevance with the global phenomenon of ticket office what did he think Top Gun: Maverick. But every career has its periods of change and the apparent end of its journey like Ethan Hunt with Mission Impossible 8 aroused the actor’s interest in working again with the best authors, such as his future new film with the filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
Without even disdaining the work of Joseph Kosinski and Christopher McQuarrieThe last time Cruise was at the helm of a prestigious director was in 2008, when he was filming Valkyrie for Bryan Singer. At that time, the person in charge of X-Men The industry didn’t cancel the event and the three-time Oscar nominee had just collaborated with names of the stature of Michael Mann, Steven Spielberg and Robert Redford. Although perhaps the highest degree of author collaboration Siracusa achieved was in the late ’90s, when he co-starred with Nicole Kidman in the film Eyes wide closed of Stanley Kubrick and was part of Paul Thomas Anderson’s magnificent ensemble in Magnolia. The actor showed some of his best performances there and it is for this reason that moviegoers are waiting with interest to see what his unusual association with the man who conquered has to offer us. the red carpet on up to two occasions. Scheduled for 2025… What do we know about this still untitled film?
Iñárritu and Cruise: a drama about power
As happened to the actor with the commercial failure of his last mission impossible, nothing went well for the director Bard, false chronicle of some truths. Proposal described as pretentious at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, greeted by critics with solemn ambiguity. Even with everything, satirical comedy on journalism from the Mexican country was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography thanks to the magnificent work of Darius Khondji (Seven). So, given that it’s due out next year, the secrecy with which Iñárritu treats the unnamed project is a bit grating.
We don’t yet know the deeper elements of the plot, but the presented synopsis explains that the film will focus on the most powerful man in the world, who will embark on a frantic mission to prove that he is the savior of humanity before the disaster. the strikes he himself launched destroy everything. Since he started with the fantastic beginnings The dog lovesIñárritu has always worked with the most avant-garde actors. From Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett has Sean Penn and Benicio del Torothrough Edward Norton and Emma Stone. The director is the artist who ultimately helped Leonardo DiCaprio win the Oscar. So why not imagine Cruise repeating the feat of his professional colleague and obtaining a more than deserved late statuette?
A star cast
Tom Cruise isn’t the only star appearing in the director’s drama. The double Oscar nominee will be in the casting Sandra Huller (Anatomy of a fall And The area of interest), the Oscar nominee Rice Ahmed (Metal sounds), John Goodman (The Big Lebowski), Michael Stuhlbarg (Call me by your name), Jesse Plemons (The power of the dog) And Sophie Wilde (talk to me). As of yet, no other names have been confirmed, but it’s definitely a cast full of familiar faces.
The person in charge of production is Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros.which on the other hand will also be responsible for distributing the project within the framework of the agreement that Cruise signed with the major at the start of the year. There is no fixed date for the premiere yet, but it is known that the screenwriters will be Inárritu himself, Sabina Berman, Alexander Dinelaris and Nicolás Giacobone. These last two are regular collaborators of the Spanish-American authorbeing the main authors of Mexican works such as birdman either Biutiful.
