LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - As Tom Cruise writes the future chapter in his life history, he's development an involvement in comic book movies.
With movie maker Sam Raimi, the doer is setting up "Sleeper" as a feature project at Warner Bros. Cruise is broadly attached to star in the version of the DC Comics/Wildstorm comic, which Raimi would produce with his Star Road Entertainment partner Josh Donen.
Written by Ed Brubaker with art by Sean Phillips, "Sleeper," which ran from 2003 through 2005, centers on an operative whose fusion with an alien artifact makes him imperviable to pain. An intelligence agency places him hole-and-corner in a villainous organization and falls for Miss Misery, a member of the group.
Although he remains a co-owner of United Artists -- from which his longtime producing partner, Paula Weinstein, resigned last week -- Cruise is not trussed exclusively to that company.
His next performing job will be in the Spyglass thriller "Tourist," as if to counter the more cerebral roles he played in the UA boxoffice failure "Lions for Lambs" and the upcoming UA World War II period drama "Valkyrie," in which he plays the anti-Nazi Claus new wave Stauffenberg.
"Sleeper" is the third project that Cruise has suit associated with over the past 2 weeks -- all trey separate from his commitments at UA. In addition to "Tourist," the histrion has verbalized interest in the Working Title/Universal comedy "Food Fight."
Also apart from UA, the worker picked up good notices last week for his uncharacteristic turn as a bald celluloid mogul in the DreamWorks-Paramount comedy "Tropic Thunder."
Even if Cruise opts non to do "Sleeper," his interest in the project is propelling it, contempt the challenge of complicated rights issues that must be sorted out.�
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