Tom Cruise has lined up his next lead role, with the star set to join the cast for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s latest film.

The film will be produced and directed by Iñárritu, with a script he co-wrote in 2023 with "Birdman" co-writers Nicolas Giacobone and Alexander Dinelaris, along with Sabina Berman. Plot details are still under wraps.

The project will mark Inarritu’s first major studio since "The Revenant" in 2015 which earned more than $500 million at the worldwide box office.

This will be Cruise's first film 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.

In recent years, Cruise has almost exclusively starred in action projects, most of which were helmed by Christopher McQuarrie, Joseph Kosinski, and Doug Liman.

That's not to say that action projects are off the table, though, as Cruise is starring in the untitled eighth Mission: Impossible film, set to arrive May 23, 2025. He's also reuniting with Liman to shoot an action movie in space, and rumors have long circulated that Edge of Tomorrow 2 is still on the table.

Source: Press Release