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http://deadline.com/2015/01/tom-cruise-doug-liman-mena-universal-1201350391/

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman are in talks to re-team on Mena, a Gary Spinelli scripted drama that Universal Pictures bought last year in a $1 million spec deal. The film will be produced by Doug Davison with Imagine’s Brian Grazer, and with Kim Roth exec producing. Cross Creek is financing this and Brian Oliver and Tyler Thompson and also producing.

The spec is a fact-based tale about Barry Seal, a pilot who, in the 1980s, was a gun runner, and drug trafficker who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel. He was eventually shot to death by the latter in Baton Rouge. The title refers to Mena, Arkansas, where a lot of the illegal activity took place, under the noses of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton. Cruise is an accomplished pilot in his own right. If this all comes together, the film would shoot sometime this year.

 

[Hasphat'sAnts]

No Blunt no sale.

 

[Oersted]

This sounds interesting, but who the hell is Gary Spinelli?

 

[Jason's Ultimatum]

I guess el presidente is canned. It was about cruise a secret service agent protecting jack nicolson, a retired us president. Was going to be a comedy/action film. I guess Nicholson refused to do it.

Mena is right up limans alley. Bourne identity film was inspired by limans dad, who was in charge of prosecution of iran/contra affair.

 

[crimzonflame]

I guess el presidente is canned. It was about cruise a secret service agent protecting jack nicolson, a retired us president. Was going to be a comedy/action film. I guess Nicholson refused to do it.

OMG Movie of the forever

 

[Jason's Ultimatum]

OMG Movie of the forever

yup. Would've been awesome. Jack is retired, and Tom and liman were going to go to jacks home to convince him to do the film. They wouldn't do it without him.

and I just realized Mena is produced by universal. This is the first time since the Bourne identity fallout that liman has worked with the studio. I thought universal banned liman, lol.

 

[inm8num2]

Sounds really intriguing - I'm down.

 

[Akahige]

Cruisemissle and Liman Lime Soda together again, today is good.