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News Simon Brew 28 May 2013 - 06:43

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. needs a new leading man, after Tom Cruise heads for Mission: Impossible 5 instead...

We callously dared to have a couple of days off over the holiday weekend just gone, and yet film news kept happening. The players of Hollywood failed to realise that we were at the English seaside wearing a Kiss Me Kwik hat and eating as many ice creams as we could wedge into our face in one go. The cads.

That's our pitiful explanation for reporting this story to you after everyone one, basically. And it's that Tom Cruise has elected to drop out of the planned movie take on The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

It's potentially turning into something of a cursed project this. George Clooney was attached to star for a while, back when Steven Soderbergh was set to direct. Now, the film still has a director, »

- simonbrew

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