By Just over a month ago came a report suggesting that writer/director Christopher McQuarrie and actor/producer Tom Cruise’s next film after they wrap production on the eighth “Mission: Impossible” is a re-imagining of the 1977 Clint Eastwood thriller “The Gauntlet”.
In 2022, McQuarrie teased he and Cruise were considering an R-rated film that was “gnarlier” than their usual work and “way outside of what you’re used to seeing Tom do”.
The April report suggested that project was this “Gauntlet” redux and suggested Scarlett Johansson was being sought to co-star with Cruise.
Now a new posting on ProductionList.com – a production tracking service offered by the Film & Television Industry Alliance – has posted an update which indicates “The Gauntlet” remake is in the works and already has a January 6th 2025 start of shooting date set with production to shoot in Los Angeles.
The original Eastwood film had the actor playing an alcoholic cop tasked with escorting a prostitute from Las Vegas to Phoenix to testify against the mob. Plans soon fall apart as cops and lawyers are all involved in a plot to kill them both.
Cruise signed a major deal with Warners earlier this year making such a remake possible, but to date no-one has officially confirmed this project even exists as yet so consider today’s listing news only a rumor for now.
Cruise is also signed on for the next Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu film and is expected to continue to film scenes for the eighth “Mission: Impossible” for much of the rest of this year.
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