Tom Cruise to Star in Redford’s Lambs

Tom Cruise next will star in Lions for Lambs, a Robert Redford-directed drama that will co-star Redford and Meryl Streep.

The movie will be Cruise’s first outing for United Artists since he and C/W partner Paula Wagner agreed to revive the company for Harry Sloan’s MGM.

“Lambs” is a Matthew Carnahan-scripted drama that consists of three interconnected storylines: Cruise as a congressman who interacts with a journalist (Streep); Redford as an idealistic professor who attempts to inspire a privileged student in his class; and a third storyline about a pair of American soldiers wounded in enemy territory, one of whom is Redford’s former student.

United Artists is financing the film. Production will begin early next year for a possible fall 2007 release. (source)