James Mangold to direct VANILLA SKY reunion

One of the many reasons why Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky, a remake of Alejandro Amenabar's Open Your Eyes is better than it's source material, is the more powerful use of the relationship between David Aames (Tom Cruise) and Julie Gianni (Cameron Diaz). In Crowe's movie, more so than the original... the creature that is Julie feels more real. She's completely neurotic, needy with a underlying sense of absolute desperation in her every action. She's in love, she's finally found the man of her dreams, but he's not interested in anything other than bedding her. The chemistry shared between Cruise and Diaz in that movie, well it's eclectric. But it's all so brief and I'm really supportive of their decision to work together again, as today's Variety report they are set to do so. Last month in an outline of potential Tom Cruise projects, one mentioned was Wichita, a 20th Century Fox romantic comedy that would reunite Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. The movie would revolve around Diaz as a woman who has terrible luck with men but finds her path intertwined with that of a mysterious handsome man she meets on a blind date, Cruise. As long as both want to make the movie, Cruise and Diaz will stay attached and now they have a further reason to do so. James Mangold (Walk the Line, 3:1o to Yuma) has jumped on board as director. Though Fox are said to be coming up with a new title and won't use Wichita (before that it was titled Trouble Man). Scott Frank, the writer of Minority Report, Out of Sight and yes, even Marley & Me, is re-writing the screenplay, which has gone through many previous incarnations (it was setup for Eva Mendes and Chris Tucker at one point). Rom-com should definitely be on the agenda for Cruise these days and Diaz is so much more interesting in movies when she is up against a good actor. You don't get the best of her when she's up acting with Ashton Kutcher.