Tom Cruise may be our next president. As far as fictional Hollywood presidents go, and really, wouldn't we rather have Morgan Freeman in the White House about now?
Anyway, he is in talks to star as President Ben Cahill, alongside Denzel Washington in a conspiracy thriller called 28th Amendment, to be directed by Phillip Noyce. See, there are only 27 amendments to the constitution right now, and the 28th would likely have to involve the outlawing of secret shadowy organizations running the government and using presidents as puppets since World War II, because that's what President Cahill will have to face. Casting the President of the United States as an action hero worked for Harrison Ford in Air Force One ("Get off my plane!"), and even somewhat in Independence Day, because Bill Pullman is cool.
Can it work for Tom Cruise, though? Likely better than playing a Nazi with an American accent will in Valkyrie.
