Tom Cruise is reportedly looking to work with Doug Liman again after having a good time making Edge of Tomorrow. The Mission: Impossible actor is in talks with Universal to star in Liman’s Mena.
The news was first reported by Deadline and has also been confirmed by Entertainment Weekly.
Mena was written by Gary Spinelli, whose spec script was acquired last year by Universal for $1 million. Doug Davison is producing with Imagine’s Brian Grazer, while Kim Roth is executive producing. Cross Creek is financing.
The film would be based on the true story of pilot Barry Seal, who was a gun runner and drug trafficker for the CIA and the Medellin cartel. He was shot and killed by the cartel in Baton Rouge. He started off by just doing CIA reconnaissance in Central America, but then was intertwined in a covert CIA operation.
Cruise and Liman’s Edge of Tomorrow wasn’t the big smash hit Warner Bros. hoped for this summer, but it was acclaimed by critics who saw it as a unique blockbuster.
Cruise is currently working on Mission: Impossible 5, which will open on Christmas Day.
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