Will “Vanilla Sky” actors Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz ever make another film together?”
Tom Cruise is zeroing in on the 20th Century Fox action comedy, formerly titled “Wichita,” as his next star vehicle. He’ll pair with Cameron Diaz in the James Mangold-directed film. That ends a serious courtship that the star had since January with some of the highest-profile projects in Hollywood. According to sources, Cruise and Diaz have approved the script, and their deals are in advanced negotiations. While Fox has not officially dated the picture, sources said the studio is eyeing a summer 2010 release. The script has been through many machinations, but the most recent drafts were done by Scott Frank, with Mangold currently fine-tuning the script with Laeta Kalogridis (“Shutter Island”). Two-hander has several action scenes. Cruise will play a secret agent who pops in and out of the life of a single woman. Todd Garner, Kathy Conrad, Steve Pink and Joe Roth are producing the pic. Since the opening of “Valkyrie,” Cruise has been courted for and has shown serious interest in the Len
Cameron Diaz has nothing but love for her pal Tom Cruise. When the actress was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday, she says it “was great” to see Cruise and wife Katie Holmes gathered with the hundreds of fans to cheer her on. Check out what Cameron Diaz used to look like. “I was really happy to see them,” Diaz told Usmagazine.com at the NYC premiere of My Sister’s Keeper Wednesday. “They were wonderful. It was fantastic. It was so lovely of them to come out and show support. My whole family was there and my friends were there. And I consider them that as well. So it was really wonderful to have them there.” See a photo of Cameron Diaz and other stars in bikinis. Diaz, who starred with Cruise in 2001’s Vanilla Sky, told Us that she will once again appear on screen with the star. According to Variety, the pair have approved the script for Wichita, a flick about an undercover agent who meets a woman who’s had not
From Philly.com: “Her latest film, the drama “My Sister’s Keeper,” teams her with Jason Patric, Abigail Breslin and Alec Baldwin in a different kind of role, portraying a mom who goes to extreme measures to keep her leukemia-stricken daughter alive. Diaz may soon be reunited with Tom Cruise, her “Vanilla Sky” co-star, in James Mangold’s action film “The Wichita Project”; and she’s attached to the Zach Braff-directed comedy “Swingles,” currently in development.
