With recent rumblings that Liman’s long-planned Moon epic Luna may have been put into turnaround by Paramount, it makes sense the director might want to move forward with his other major project, but he also was recently attached to direct Everest for Sony, based on Jeffrey Archer’s book “Paths of Glory.”
There isn’t a lot more said about the movie or the role Cruise may play in Liman’s movie, but there are some interesting thoughts on Cruise’s current career over in the THR article, which you can read here.