It looks like Mr. Cruise will soon be adding a comic book movie to his resume. We get the following scoop from the murky caves of Yahoo:
As Tom Cruise writes the next chapter in his career, he’s developing an interest in comic-book movies. With filmmaker Sam Raimi, the actor is setting up “Sleeper” as a feature project at Warner Bros. Cruise is loosely attached to star in the adaptation of the DC Comics/Wildstorm comic, which Raimi would produce with his Star Road Entertainment partner Josh Donen.
Written by Ed Brubaker with art by Sean Phillips, “Sleeper,” which ran from 2003 through 2005, centers on an operative whose fusion with an alien artifact makes him impervious to pain. An intelligence agency places him undercover in a villainous organization and falls for Miss Misery, a member of the group.
I didn’t see this team up coming, but Raimi and Cruise are in bed for Sleeper! It looks like every comic book ever made will soon be forged into a film, and this is fine with me. I enjoy comic book films and welcome them more than another remake any day of the week. I just hope they get around to making a Power Man and Iron Fist film that’s set in the 70’s.
As always, I am going to ask our ardent comic book readers to share their thoughts on this news. I haven’t read Sleeper but would love to know the thoughts of those of you that have. Please share with us your opinion of the comic book, and the team up of Cruise/Raimi for the project.
