Tom Cruise & Denzel Washington teaming together for the first time!

From the outside looking in, I would guess that Tom Cruise and his closest pals and advises have been discussing over the last few weeks and aggressively pursuing what his next project could be. We've heard much about the potential Ben Stiller comedy, another Mission Impossible yarn, we've heard this and that but this one seems to be a real leading contender. The movie is The 28th Amendment and if talks go well it will see him play the U.S. President that discovers his country is actually being controlled by a Denzel Washington led super secret organization who kills everyone that gets in their way! It will be directed by Aussie director Phillip Noyce (who helmed Washington in the late 90's thriller The Bone Collector) and will mark the first on screen pairing of Cruise and Denzel...

Ironically, Cruise has been advised to play a U.S. President when he himself is probably at the lowest point of his public relations image. The only bad news I guess about the project is that it comes from Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci who are spreading their seed everywhere right now but to give the devils their due, I loved what they did with Mission Impossible III for Cruise - a most satisfying refreshment of a tired franchise. So the next question is... when can this get made? Well the actor's strike seems to have killed Peter Berg's C.I.A. thriller Edwin A. Salt which Cruise was set to lead in February so he is free to begin whenever as far as we know, despite many potential projects looming over his head. Denzel will be finishing off his remake of The Taking of Pelham 123 soon and will be free however Noyce has at least two projects he previously said he would direct as his next features - The Art of Making Money and Mary Queen of Scots. For this to be filmed soon he would have to budge on his prior commitments. Still... ya gotta make room when it's for these two giants. These kind of opportunities don't come around very often, though we all know Tony Scott is the only man who should direct Cruise and Washington's first face to face meeting! source - moviehole