After morphing into an Axl Rose-like 80s rock icon in Rock of Ages and learning to sing rock anthems, is Tom Cruise ready to return to the music terrain alongside Beyonce in the Clint Eastwood-directed A Star Is Born for Warner Bros? I'm hearing that the studio is discussing with Cruise the prospect of playing an over the hill musician who helps launch the star of an ingenue he falls in love with. I have no idea if Cruise will say yes, or if the schedules will mesh since he's just beginning shooting on the Joseph Kosinski-directed Oblivion, followed by the Doug Liman-directed We Mortals Are for Warner Bros. The studio at various times has discussed everyone from Will Smith to Christian Bale and Russell Crowe, and the addition of Eastwood makes the whole thing more attractive. Deadline revealed that Cruise might take on Rock of Ages at an early stage, so who knows?
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