Today it was announced in that Columbia Pictures is in negotiations with Terry George (HOTEL RWANDA and RESERVATION ROAD) to direct “Edwin A. Salt,” from a Kurt Wimmer screenplay. The script is being pushed as a starring vehicle for Tom Cruise and uber-producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura (former Head of Production at Warner Bros.) and Sunil Perkash are attached.

The title character in EDWIN A SALT is a CIA officer who is ratted out by a former KGB Russian defector as a spy. Cruise’s character must then elude capture by the CIA, reunite with his family and prove his innocence to the world. Sounds to me like a cross between THE FUGITIVE and THE BOURNE IDENTITY.

Tom Cruise has been spending all of his non-Scientology related time acting in films such as LIONS FOR LAMBS directed by Robert Redford. Also, Cruise will appear in the Bryan Singer (SUPERMAN, X-MEN 1 and 2) directed VALKYRIE which was made for smaller Cruise/Wagner run United Artists.

VALKYRIE is a film that’s been in the news a lot lately because of the German ban on the film shooting there largely because of Tom Cruise’s membership in the Church of Scientology.

To add fuel to the German-brewed fire Cruise might also appear in MEN which Todd Phillips is set to direct that is a remake of the Doris Dorrie (love that last name) German comedy. Cruise in a comedy? Isn’t that a paradox?

Tags: Tom Cruise, Scientology, Todd Phillips, Valkyrie, Edwin A Salt, Sony, Columbia, CIA

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