Last week, we brought you the news that Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner signed to make a thriller set in World War II as part of their revival of the United Artists label. It was penned by The Usual Suspects creative team of Bryan Singer and Christopher McQuarrie, and is set to go into production this summer.
The big, but not all that surprising story this morning is that Tom likes the script so much, he wants to star in it too. And Bryan Singer is apparently more than happy to let him. In fact, Bryan asked Tom to be a part of the cast in meetings earlier this week.
We also now know the story – it's the plot to kill Hitler, as made not all that famous by a TV movie called The Plot To Kill Hitler back in 1990. It focuses on several of the Nazi dictator's own generals, who tried to do the monster in by planting a bomb in his battlefield bunker. Now, Hitler did die in a bunker, but hopefully it's no great spoiler to reveal that it wasn't from a bomb blast (watch Downfall for that particular story). See where this is going?
The other news here is that there's another writer involved - Nathan Alexander, who we don't know a whole lot about, and whose only other credit is as an assistant on McQuarrie's The Way Of The Gun. Meanwhile, we have word that this still as yet untitled project won't affect Singer's deadline for the follow up to Superman Returns, which is still in its early stages.