Tom Cruise is joining forces once again with Doug Liman, the director behind ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ and ‘American Made.’ The two are stepping into new territory with their first-ever horror movie.
The film is titled ‘Deeper,’ and it’s about an astronaut who explores a deep-sea trench hiding a dark, supernatural threat. There are some rumors that the underwater danger might be H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu.
Doug Liman recently confirmed the news during a Q&A and announced that Cruise officially signed on for the project. The movie has been in development for over a decade, and Max Landis is writing the script. Other names like Idris Elba were attached to the film, but it looks like Cruise and Liman are the team to finally make it happen.
Cruise spent most of the past decade focused on action-packed films like ‘Mission: Impossible’ and ‘Jack Reacher.’ In fact, Cruise has been working on a pair of ‘Mission: Impossible’ movies since 2020. ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ hit theaters in 2023, and ‘The Final Reckoning’ is set to release in May 2025.
Cruise has several other projects lined up. He is set to work with ‘The Revenant’ director Alejandro González Iñárritu on a movie about the world’s most powerful man trying to save humanity before an apocalyptic event. That film may start production before the end of this year. You can also look forward to a possible ‘Top Gun 3,’ and even a potential sequel to ‘Edge of Tomorrow.’
Cruise and Liman were also planning a movie that would include scenes filmed in space with help from NASA and SpaceX. There’s still hope that the space movie will happen, but it seems ‘Deeper’ is the priority for now.
