Hollywood screenwriters generally don't get paid a lot for their work and most are advised to invest wisely considering script sales can be years and years apart from each other but young writer
Dan Fogelman (Tangled, Bolt) is on a hot streak right now and the way he is going, could soon compete with some actors year-by-year gross. Recently paid $3 million for his ex-rocker dramedy
Imagine that he is set to also direct with
Steve Carell attached to star, which adds to the $2.5 million he was paid for this summer's hotly anticipated
Crazy Stupid Love (also starring Carell),
Deadline say WB have this week won a ferocious five way bidding war and forked out $2 million for his new script which has caught the attention of A-lister
Tom Cruise. The title is being kept a mystery but we do know it would find Cruise as a "politician who gets caught in an affair. With his reputation in tatters, the pol retreats to his hometown to lick his wounds, repair relationships and confront his past. Cruise played a U.S. politician in the Robert Redford directed 2007 flop
Lions for Lambs, however we think audiences would be interested in seeing the once Jerry Maguire star again toy the comedy/drama line, which we know Cruise is so good at. We shouldn't forget he was Oscar nominated for that movie and with his last nomination being 12 years ago for his supporting turn in Magnolia, perhaps Cruise is thinking it's about time he re-entered the awards rat-race?
Meanwhile, Fogelman's next script to go into production is
My Mother's Curse, a roadtrip dramedy starring the odd pair of
Barbara Streisand and
Seth Rogen! And Cruise's next film appearance after
Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol this December will be as decadent rocker Stacee Jaxx in Adam Shankman's
Rock of Ages. The only other attachment that seems to be moving as a potential next film is the
Joseph Kosinski directed sci-fi movie Oblivion (or Horizons depending on who you are speaking too) which Universal are negotiating to finance and distribute as a PG-13 project.