Tom Cruise Wants To Go To The Moon With ‘Luna Park’
By Jack Giroux/Oct. 29, 2015 6:00 am EST
Cruise and Liman recently wrapped shooting Mena, an ’80s drug thriller for Universal. Next, after Jack Reacher: Never Go Back is in the can and before Mission: Impossible 6 starts shooting, the actor will make time for Luna Park. Four years ago the space heist movie was a go project. After the budget ballooned past $100 million, the co-financier Skydance and Paramount pulled the plug on the project. Liman’s films tend to go over schedule and over budget, so it’s understandable the studio didn’t want to take the risk. But now the project is back on, and after some rumors and speculation, it’s been confirmed Tom Cruise is starring in Luna Park.
Luna Park’s script has gone through several iterations, including a draft from Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Apocalypse). Jason Fuchs is now taking a pass on the script. The screenwriter is coming off of Pan, a significant bomb for Warner Bros. From what I’ve heard, the script and the movie director Joe Wright shot was quite different from what ended up on screen, so even if you loathed Pan, Fuchs doesn’t deserve all the blame. Fuchs is also one of the writers working on Wonder Woman.
According to JoBlo, the plan is for Luna Park to begin shooting early next year. Liman’s film is about a group of renegade employees who travel to the moon to steal an energy source, and it’s fair to assume Cruise will play the leader of the pack.
