Tom Cruise rumoured to be remaking The Gauntlet for Warner Bros.

Tom Cruise rumoured to be remaking The Gauntlet for Warner Bros.

Thanks to my old friend, and former president of The Clint Eastwood Appreciation Society Dave Turner, rumours are circulating that Tom Cruise is about to remake Clint’s 1977 action thriller, The Gauntlet. 

A few months back the trades announced that Tom Cruise signed a strategic partnership with Warner Bros. to develop and produce original and franchise theatricals for Cruise to star in. At the time, what exactly he was planning to develop remained unknown. 

But the website GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT has reported that Tom Cruise will take over the role originally played by Eastwood in the movie, that of alcoholic Detective Ben Shockley. The original version of The Gauntlet was also directed by Clint Eastwood, but the website’s source also reveals that Christopher McQuarrie will direct the Tom Cruise version. Tom Cruise will, of course, produce as part of his new deal with Warners.

McQuarrie has become Tom Cruise’s go-to director over the years. He directed Tom Cruise on movies like Jack Reacher, The Mummy, and three Mission: Impossible (soon four) movies. Now Christopher McQuarrie is working with Cruise on The Gauntlet. 

Sounds interesting, watch this space. My thanks to Dave Turner and Olly Peden.