You can already see the trailer: From the author who brought you Jason Bourne! And the visionary director who blew your mind with “Scanners” and broke your heart with “A History of Violence”! Tom Cruise…and Denzel Washington in…“The Matarese Circle”!!

It pretty much screams Hollywood blockbuster, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. For all the ink spilled in the trades and on the Internet over the adaptation of the Robert Ludlum novel, MGM has not yet green-lit the 'Matarese' project. In an exclusive interview with the man pegged to both write and direct, David Cronenberg revealed to MTV News that the movie, while still on track, is not yet a done deal—because there are neither contracts with the stars nor a final script in place. Read more...

Tom Cruise might just be on his way to a critical and commercial comeback. His couch-jumping antics have made him the butt of jokes for the past few years. But "Tropic Thunder" earned him laughs (the good kind) and a Golden Globe nomination, and audiences flocked to "Valkyrie" over the holidays.

Pairing up with Denzel Washington and David Cronenberg for a thriller can only keep his momentum going -- and according to Variety, that's exactly what he's going to do. Cruise will be joining Washington in "The Matarese Circle," Cronenberg's adaptation of the Robert Ludlum spy thriller. Read more...

It's a happy day for film fans when the brilliant David Cronenberg announces his next project -- and this time, the shock value comes not from a disintegrating Jeff Goldblum or a naked Viggo Mortensen, but because it's bizarrely normal. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he's in talks to direct "The Matarese Circle," a big-screen adaptation of Robert Ludlum's 1979 novel. Denzel Washington is attached to star.

The Cold War-era novel centers around two rival intelligence agents, one American and one Soviet, who uncover the existence of the Matarese Dynasty, a group of criminals who have infiltrated the highest levels of the world's government. The two agents find themselves working together in an unlikely alliance to dismantle and destroy the group's conspiracy, while being hunted down by their own agencies. Read more...