10 Upcoming Movies That Made PERFECT Casting Choices
6. Tom Cruise - Alejandro G. Iñárritu's New Film
Tom Cruise is such a larger-than-life figure that there are a lot of parts he's simply too "big" to play nowadays, but his leading role in the untitled new film from Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman, The Revenant) sounds like a perfect fit for his stature.
The utterly wild premise casts Cruise as "the most powerful man in the world," who sets out on a mission to prove that he's humanity's saviour before a disaster he's unleashed destroys everything.
Yep, that'll do it.
Given that Cruise has spent almost 30 years playing Mission: Impossible's Ethan Hunt, a character once famously referred to as "the living manifestation of destiny," it's tough to picture an actor better suited to portray the most powerful man in the world.
Though we don't yet know whether Iñárritu's film has literally supernatural elements or not, it's nevertheless a welcome, long overdue return to dramatic, auteur-driven filmmaking for Cruise.
Don't be shocked if this is the role that finally wins him an Oscar.