No, it’s not a remake of a Woody Allen film, but Tom Cruise’s people are on it. What’s that? Whisper that his career might be stumbling maybe because he was replaced by a girl on “Edwin A. Salt” and that’s not a good look career wise? Sounds like Cruise and his team had a five-hour marathon imaging session (no bathroom breaks or you’re not a team player) and decided his career needed to go into various new directions asap. Not only is Cruise eyeing a restaurant comedy called, “Food Fight,”and a french thriller called “The Tourist,” is appears that he’s dipping a toe into the potentially lucrative comic-book/graphic novel world.
Cruise and director Sam Raimi (the “Spider-Man” franchise) are apparently setting up shop for an adaptation of “Sleeper,” by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, with Raimi as producer and the Scientology hero loosely attached as the star.
“Sleeper” centers on an operative whose fusion with an alien artifact makes him impervious to pain and allows him to pass it on to others through skin contact. Like “Watchmen” it apparently has some rights issues, but Warner Bros. (also handling this one), apparently wants to button this one up before it gets out the doors, so they don’t run into similar problems. Cruise-y, you’re on a tear!