Tom Cruise has been linked with the Sean Connery mentor role in the new take on Highlander...
Here's one from our Never-Saw-That-Coming-Dept. The planned reboot of the Highlandermovie series, that Summit Entertainment is working on, is targeting Tom Cruise for one of its leading roles.
The Wrap reports that Cruise is being earmarked for the mentor role in the new Highlander, the part that Sean Connery took on in the original film. One of Cruise's representatives admitted that Highlanderis "one of many projects that come to him and he discusses," noting that the actor is "far from talks". Furthermore, Cruise has been "offered tons of projects."
Which doesn't sound quite so promising. Given that Tom Cruise is still taking on pretty much exclusively leading man roles - he's currently filming Mission:Impossible 5 with director Christopher McQuarrie - it seems unlikely that the part in Highlanderis something that would appeal. Yet stranger things have happened.
Highlanderis being directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, who did second unit directing work on Maleficent, and was the visual effects supervisor on SnowWhite And The Huntsman. We'd imagine that Summit will want to get cameras rolling at some point next year.
More on the film as we hear it. Help yourself to the 'only one' gags...
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