Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to feast your eyes on the veritable constellation of stars who've just been added to the line-up for The Revenant filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu's latest. Back in February, we brought you news that Top Gun: Maverick and Mission: Impossible action man Tom Cruise had signed on to star in Iñárritu's new as-yet-untitled movie at Warner Bros. And now today, per Deadline's reporting, we've learned that *deep breath* Anatomy Of A Fall star Sandra Hüller, Killers Of The Flower Moon's Jesse Plemons, Emmy winner John Goodman, Talk To Me breakout Sophie Wilde, Call Me By Your Name's Michael Stuhlbarg, and Oscar-winner Riz Ahmed (final negotiations pending) have all boarded the buzzy project.
Co-written by Iñárritu with Sabina Berman, Alexander Dinelaris and Nicolas Giacobone last year, details on the Birdman and The Revenant director's latest have been scarce up until now. But, thanks to Deadline's piece on the movie, we have now learned that the film's logline suggests the action will centre around the most powerful man in the world, who finds himself on a frenzied mission to convince the human race he's their saviour before a disaster he's responsible for destroys — and we quote — "everything". Yikes! Now, we don't know who'll play who in the film at this point, but it wouldn't be a huge stretch to imagine Cruise will be playing the most powerful man in the world. Frankly, after his recent Olympics heroics and, well, pretty much every movie he's made in the last quarter of a century, we're not entirely convinced he isn't in fact the most powerful man in the world for realsies.
Outside of the insanely stacked cast and the newly revealed logline, an air of mystery still hangs over Iñárritu's first film since 2022's Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths at this point — including when we can expect it to reach our screens. But it is a hell of a cast, and a hell of a logline, and the prospect of one of the 21st century's great auteurs teaming up with one of the 21st century's great remaining true movie stars is more than enough to have us pumped for this one. Let's just hope Iñárritu doesn't have any bears in store for Cruise, eh? Although let's face it, even if he did, we've seen TC run — he'd probably be fine actually. Anyway...