Cruise’s Next Film is ‘The Tourist’ Remake

Tom Cruise and Spyglass Entertainment are circling each other on “The Tourist,” the Bharat Nalluri-directed remake of the 2005 French thriller “Anthony Zimmer.”

The film has emerged as the strongest contender for Cruise’s next outing and his first star vehicle since the Bryan Singer-directed ‘Valkyrie’ at United Artists.

Scripted by “Gosford Park” scribe Julian Fellowes, the thriller concerns an American tourist who finds his life in danger when a female Interpol agent uses him as a dupe to flush out an elusive criminal with whom she once had an affair.

Nalluri, who directed the HBO film “Tsunami: The Aftermath” and ‘Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day,’ joined the project several months ago.

Cruise has been careful in weighing his next film, and sources caution that his participation in “The Tourist” hasn’t solidified. Cruise had been courted but decided in the end not to star in “Edwin A. Salt,” a drama whose lead role is being redrafted for Angelina Jolie.