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Tom Cruise could be a “Sleeper”
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
The man who runs United Artists and who remains one of the world’s biggest box office draws may finally be starring in his own superhero film. Tom Cruise is interested in possibly starring in Sleeper, an adaptation of a harder-edge comic book series of the same title published by DC Comics/Wildstorm. As you may or may not recall, at one point Tom was interested in playing Iron Man, years back and well before Robert Downey Jr. got involved. Perhaps the $300 million dollar domestic take of the Marvel superhero movie got Mr. Cruise to reconsider making a superhero movie?
Sleeper, which is presently not published by DC Comics, was about a secret operative who got exposed to an alien artifact which rendered him invulnerable to pain. Such a talent proved to be handy for the agency that the character works for, enabling him to perform feats of extreme hardship that other agents couldn’t do. Personally, while it sounds like a cool idea for a comic I can’t see this having the same legs as an Iron Man franchise would have. Even with Spider-Man director Sam Raimi also behind this new project, I don’t see it being a super hit in Tom’s future.
Posted at 12:37AM by admin
