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Columbia acquired movie rights to the Kurt Wimmer spy novel Edwin A Salt in January, and the film is being developed with Cruise "in mind" to star in the title role, a studio source told Reuters.
He would play a CIA officer fingered by a defector as a Russian sleeper spy.
As first reported by show business magazine Daily Variety, the studio is in negotiations with Hotel Rwanda writer-director Terry George to direct Edwin A Salt, the source said.
George, a native of Belfast, has earned Oscar nominations for his screenwriting work on both Hotel Rwanda, which starred Don Cheadle, and the 1993 film In the Name of the Father, based on the true story of a man wrongly imprisoned with his father for an Irish Republican Army bombing.
According to Variety, George just finished directing Reservation Road, which stars Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Connelly and Mira Sorvino.
Cruise recently began filming Valkyrie, in which he plays the German army officer who led a foiled plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler during World War II. © 2007 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Posted July 24th, 2007 by Dinka
