So far in his career, the closest that Tom Cruise has truly come to being a cowboy was a brief, uncredited cameo way back in Young Guns. He might be about to change all that if he dons the spurs to co-star with Reese Witherspoon in rodeo love tale Paper Wings.
According to the LA Times, the two stars are considering the film, which sees a rodeo champ falling in love with a country singer. Witherspoon has a little bit of experience belting out country-flavoured numbers following her Oscar-grabbing turn as June Carter Cash in Walk The Line, but we’re not so convinced we see Cruise as a horse-wrangler.
Still, it’s early days yet – and this project has been wandering the development stable for a while now, landing first at New Line before ending up at Sony. But if two of Hollywood’s biggest names sign on, it’ll likely be shepherded into the production ring as soon as they can find a director to whip it into shape.