Tom Cruise to Star in Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Next Project

Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment are in negotiations for a new movie from Alejandro González Iñárritu, with Tom Cruise attached as star. 

The untitled project would be Iñárritu’s first English-language movie since 2015's “The Revenant.”

Iñárritu won back-to-back Academy Awards for his direction of “Birdman” in 2015 and “The Revenant” in 2016. He followed up those projects with 2017’s “Flesh and Sand” (“Carne y Arena”), a virtual-reality short giving viewers the perspective of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border with a coyote.

It debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017 and earned a special achievement Oscar in 2018. In 2022, he co-wrote, co-scored, edited, produced, and directed “Bardo,” which earned an Oscar nomination for best cinematography.

The untitled project will be produced and directed by Iñárritu, with a script he co-wrote in 2023 with “Birdman” co-writers Nicolas Giacobone and Alexander Dinelaris, alongside Sabina Berman. 

Plot details are still under wraps. This will also be Cruise’s first movie since signing a deal to develop and produce theatrical films with Warner Bros. Discovery in January. His last project with the studio was “Edge of Tomorrow” a decade ago.

Most recently, Cruise appeared in “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning” and “Top Gun: Maverick”.

Cruise’s other upcoming movies include the eighth “Mission: Impossible” film for Paramount, as well as an upcoming Universal action movie from Doug Liman that will make him “the first civilian to do a spacewalk” outside the International Space Station.