Tom Cruise and Alejandro Iñárritu to join forces for a dark comedy

Tom Cruise is about to stop running — and start laughing. Not the megawatt Mission: Impossible grin, but the kind that curdles at the edges. Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the man who turned midlife meltdown into art with Birdman, says Tom “will surprise the world” in his new untitled comedy. Translation: the world’s most controlled action star is about to lose control — beautifully.

For once, Tom Cruise won’t run from disaster — he’ll cause it, and maybe laugh at it too

This project, currently hiding behind the working title Judy, is the sort of chaotic cocktail that could either detonate or redefine Cruise’s career. The cast reads like a who’s-who of acting heavyweights — Jesse Plemons, Sandra Hüller, Riz Ahmed, Emma D’Arcy, John Goodman — all under the watchful lens of Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki. That’s right, the Gravity and Tree of Life cinematographer is shooting this one on 35mm VistaVision film. Expect something lush, wild, and slightly deranged.

Early whispers call it a “dark, brutal comedy of catastrophic proportions.” Allegedly, it centres on a powerful man who causes the apocalypse, then tries to save the world — classic Iñárritu irony, laced with Cruise’s obsessive energy. For a guy who’s spent decades defying gravity, this might be his first time surrendering to absurdity.

And honestly? It’s about time. Tom’s last few years have been all biceps and box office. But audiences — and probably Cruise himself — are craving a crack in the armour. Birdman was Iñárritu’s dissection of an actor’s ego, so imagine what can happen when he applies that scalpel to Tom Cruise, the living embodiment of Hollywood perfectionism.

If everything goes well, the film will hit theatres in October 2026. Until then, there’s only one question that lingers: what’s more thrilling than watching Tom Cruise leap off cliffs? Watching him finally laugh at the fall.

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