The “The Tourist,” was to be another collaboration between “Valkyrie” writer Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise for Spyglass – a remake of 2005’s French thriller “Anthony Zimmer.” His co-star in the picture was going to be Charlize Theron under the direction of Bharat Nalluri (“Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day”) and the script was originally written by Julian Fellowes (“Shadowlands”).
Well, plans have changed ever so slightly.
So Cruise is now out of “The Tourist,” but Aussie golden boy Sam Worthington is in (cue the swoons of the ladies). Everything else appears to be the same aside from Cruise and the screenwriter he brought in, McQuarrie (and Cruise has moved on with Cameron Diaz in the James Mangold helmed action-comedy “Wichita,” but it sounds like that may have reverted to an untitled state).
Apparently they’re going with a script by Julian Fellowes and Jeffrey Nachmanoff, which either means they reverted to Fellowes original draft with help by Nachmanoff, or the two worked together on another draft, but McQuarrie’s name is nowhere to be found on this THR report (he was brought in by Cruise, so it makes sense that he’s gone now).
The film is a thriller about an American tourist manipulated by a female Interpol agent in Europe and as we like to note, not a remake of Claire Noto’s famously unmade existentialist and similarly-named sci-fi script, “The Tourist,” which was raped and pillaged by Hollywood the world over and then sort of turned into “Men In Black.” As you were.
