Tom Cruise rumoured to star in The Gauntlet remake

Tom Cruise is rumoured to star along with Scarlett Johansson in a remake of Clint Eastwood’s The Gauntlet directed by Christopher McQuarrie.

In accordance to GiantFreakinRobot, Tom Cruise is rumoured to star in a remake of Clint Eastwood’s The Gauntlet, which Christopher McQuarrie will instant. Different scoopers, this kind of as EmpireCity, have included that Scarlett Johansson will likely be starring together with Cruise, which might mark the to begin with time the 2 actors have labored collectively.

Nothing has been formally declared, so take into account all of this with a grain of salt for now, however each of these Tom Cruise and Scarlett Johansson have beforehand stated that they would love to do the job alongside each other. On the premiere of Mission: Not potential – Lifeless Reckoning, Cruise was specified that it might materialize. “Look, I've watched her occupation her full every day life,” Cruise stated. “She’s enormously proficient, fairly charismatic. It’d be thrilling. She may do every little thing. She may do comedy, drama, movement, suspense. She’s somebody that basically attracts you in on the show display, on digital digicam. So unquestionably, it’s gonna happen.“

The Gauntlet was produced in 1977 and starred Clint Eastwood (who additionally directed) as Ben Shockley, an alcoholic cop who falls in get pleasure from with a prostitute whom he’s been assigned to escort from Las Vegas to Phoenix for her to testify in opposition to the mob. The first movie is total of a great deal of motion, chase scenes, and vehicular mayhem, so you'll be able to definitely see wherein it might be given the Cruise treatment.

McQuarrie has beforehand teased that he’s bought a “gnarly R-rated” film with Cruise deliberate after they full with Mission: Extraordinarily arduous 8. “There’s a movie that Cruise and I are speaking about conducting subsequent or in some potential upcoming, that Erik [Jendresen] and I formulated alongside each other – what has been referred to on the web as The Gnarly Film,” McQuarrie reported previous summer time season. “It’s that film that they're all soliciting for, and that we need to do.” The Gauntlet may extremely properly be that activity.

Mission: Extraordinarily arduous 8, earlier titled Mission: Extraordinarily arduous – Ineffective Reckoning Side Two, is in the intervening time filming and can hit theaters on Would possibly 23, 2025. It's acknowledged that this will likely be Cruise’s remaining Mission: Tough movement image, so admirers are extraordinarily curious to see what his subsequent activity will likely be. If that winds as much as be an R-rated remake of a gritty ’70s motion thriller… rely me in.