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It’s a Shame Hollywood Hasn’t Picked Up a Canceled Movie Starring Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington That is a Certified Blockbuster
”: It’s a Shame Hollywood Hasn’t Picked Up a Canceled Movie Starring Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington That is a Certified Blockbuster
Cruise and Denzel Washington were once tapped to play leads in a spy thriller that saw David Cronenberg at the helm. The project never took off as the production house MGM ran into financial issues.
This was during the 2008-09 period when Cruise badly wanted to make a comeback. Washington was riding on the success of playing a crime lord in American Gangster, while Cronenberg had A History of Violence and Eastern Promises to his name
Tom Cruise in a still from Collateral | Credits: DreamWorks PicturesThe plan was to adapt Robert Ludlum’s The Matarese Circle into a film. The studio also acquired Ludlum’s sequel novel, The Matarese Countdown, intending to kickstart a franchise. It was the perfect time for all three names involved but the film was eventually scrapped along with a bunch of other films when MGM went brok
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