
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has closed its deal to acquire Our Name Is Adam, the T.S. Nowlin script that will have Tom Cruise play an astronaut who travels back in time and works with his younger self. I reported that Paramount would step up and not waste the first crack it had on the material through its first look deal with Mary Parent’s Disruption. The studio stepped up after it secured Skydance Productions as its partner on the film. There was buzz on the project when it looked like other studios would get a shot at the material, but that pretty much ended when Paramount entered into an exclusive negotiation last Wednesday.
This gives Paramount and Skydance yet another project with Cruise. The parties already have the Mission: Impossible franchise, the upcoming Christopher McQuarrie-directed Jack Reacher, and the sequel to Top Gun.


I still don’t like Tom because he jumped on Oprah’s sofa when he was sent on her show to promote Mission Impossible. As for this movie what if he goes too far back in time? He’d meet his very early ancestor who would be an ape. That’s the movie I want to see. Tom and an ape trying to get back to the future. Tom has to protect the ape because if anything happens to this ape then Tom won’t ever be born and Viacom would lose a lot of money. Tom is very profitable for us. But I still don’t like him he gives me the creeps he’s always smiling always happy.
Laughed way too hard at this post. Bravo.
Tom Cruise is the coolest actor. Screw the haters!
Looper Duper.
I’ve read the first 50-pages of the script and so far, I don’t see what all of the buzz is about. It’s professionally written, but so far, nothing special. It’s moderately interesting, which I guess goes to show the current state of most scripts out there, that most are sooo bad, if you can simply not anger or bore the reader, you can get a Tom Cruise interested and get it sold.
Like PTMaatta said, professional written but the story is a bore. I sat through the entire script (I wonder why) and it is very average story-wise. And this is no franchise starter given the last act.