Tom Cruise Joining Cameron Diaz in ‘Wichita’

You can all let go of that held breath.  Tom Cruise has selected his next project, and it is to be ‘Wichita.’  Cruise will co-star alongside Cameron Diaz.  Both teams have approved the script, and final negotiations are under way.  The film is to be directed by James Mangold.

Cruise will play a secret agent who pops in, from time to time, on Diaz’s character, a single woman.  The screenplay has gone through several revisions with the most recent drafts being done by Scott Franks (‘Minority Report’ and ‘The Lookout’).  Mangold and Laeta Kalogridis (‘Night Watch’ and ‘Shutter Island’) are fine-tuning the final draft which is said to be action-packed.

Since January, Cruise has been courted by half a dozen various projects, all of which must now, evidently, turn towards less star power for, more importantly, less money.

While no official date set for ‘Wichita,’ 20th Century Fox is looking at a release next Summer.

Source: Variety