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Cruise Eyes Killer Role
Maybe Tom Cruise figures if it worked for Denzel, it could work for him, too.
The Oscar-less Hollywood mega-star is in negotiations with DreamWorks to be the bad guy in writer-director Michael Mann's next project, Collateral, reports Daily Variety.
Just as Washington eschewed his typical nice-guy persona for Training Day (and picked up the Best Actor statuette for his efforts), Cruise would also play against type, taking on the role of a hit man in the gritty drama, which takes place over the course of one night on the streets of Los Angeles.
As penned by Stuart Beattie with a little rewrite help from Green Mile filmmaker Frank Darabont, Collateral follows the tale of a taxi driver whose passenger turns out to be a contract killer (our boy Cruise), who holds the cabbie hostage as he goes about whacking people in the wee hours. Variety says Mann hopes to evoke the sleek noirish style of his 1995 film Heat and his acclaimed TV shows Miami Vice, Crime Story and Robbery Homicide Division. No word yet on who'll play the cabbie.
The closest Cruise has come to playing a villain was playing the blood-sucking Lestat in 1994's big-screen adaptation of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire. He's best known for more heroic fare, such as playing super spy Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible movies, ace Navy pilot "Maverick" in Top Gun and cop-on-the-run John Anderton in last year's Minority Report.
Cruise has been angling to shed his good-guy image for a while. He and producing partner Paula Wagner ponied up major moola in April for the rights to the book The Devil in the White City, the true story of a devilishly debonair Chicago doctor-turned-serial killer who lures young women away from the 1893 World's Fair and murders them in a nearby hotel.
(Cruise will have to hurry, though, since Leonardo DiCaprio's production company is also developing a script based on the same dastardly subject.)
Cruise, who recently wrapped director Edward Zwick's Japanese historical epic, The Last Samurai, is expected to sign on to the Mann vehicle soon. Both actor and filmmaker have expressed a desire to work together.
Mann's last film was 2001's Ali, starring Will Smith as the titular boxing champ. But Ali cost Sony Pictures $109 million and grossed a tepid $58 million domestically. With Cruise on board for the new project, Mann could reverse his box-office fortunes.
If everything goes to plan, Collateral will start shooting in October, after which Cruise will segue back into hero mode starring and producing Mission: Impossible 3 with Narc director Joe Carnahan taking over the directing reigns from David Fincher, who dropped out.
Cruise is also expected to reenlist with his Minority Report director Steven Spielberg for Ghost Soldiers, a World War II drama about the survivors of Asia's Bataan Death March that Cruise will produce and topline. And, yes, he'd play a good guy.
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