Tom Cruise will circle Denzel Washington in Cronenberg's first blockbuster!

by Matt Holmes

Another huge story to hit the trades tonight! Variety say Tom Cruise is in talks to join the already cast Denzel Washington in THE MATARESE CIRLCE, the Robert Ludlum (BOURNE series) thriller that David Cronenberg will make next. Do I really need to say anymore, surely your sold already? The MGM thriller which will go into production later this year will find Cruise and Washington as bitter enemy spies who come together after two decades of trying to kill each other in order to stop the powerful Matarese group in root of a conspiracy. WANTED and 3:10 TO YUMA scribes Michael Brandt and Derek Haas adapted Ludlum's novel for screen, contemporising Ludlum's Cold-War setting. The movie should be out next year after Cruise has remade THE TOURIST, a thriller over at Spyglass which sees him co-star with Charlize Theron. Coming off the historical thriller VALKYRIE, Cruise is dismissing my advice of going the comedy route (which worked with TROPIC THUNDER) and hopes to win the hearts of fans in this genre once again. Cronenberg, always seen as an Indie film-maker whose only real attempt at a commercial movie was A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE a few years ago, will direct his first blockbuster. And how I can't wait to see what he will do with it.

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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.