Tom Cruise And Doug Liman Reunion ‘Mena’ Set For January 2017
We’ve got a set of new release dates from Universal and Warner Bros. The new collaboration betweenEdge of TomorrowdirectorDoug Limanand starTom Cruisehas been set for January 2017 by Universal, and Warner Bros. has given dates to theKey & PeelefilmKeanu, and the remake ofGoing in Style.
First up,Deadlinereports the two Warner Bros. dates.Keanu, which starsKeegan-Michael KeyandJordan Peele, will open on August 26, 2025. The film is named after a cat, which is “abducted by a street gang, sending its humans undercover as drug dealers.“Peter Atencio, who directed the showKey & Peele, will direct this feature, which will compete with Universal’sThe Huntsman.
And thenGoing In Style, starringMorgan Freeman,Michael CaineandAlan Arkin, will open on May 6. The film remakes a Martin Brest comedy that was popular on release in 1979, withZach BraffandTheodore Melfidirecting. The film follows three seniors who, fed up with living on bare subsistence funds thanks to social security checks, decide to rob a bank… despite their total lack of experience with such activities. The picture will act as counter-programming toCaptain America: Civil War.
Finally, there’s Mena, which Universal will release on June 10, 2025.
TheGary Spinelliscript ended up on the 2014 Black List, and follows “the outrageous and real exploits of hustler and pilot Barry Seal, a CIA recruit tasked with bringing down a burgeoning communist threat in Central America.”
Tom Cruise plays Seal — who in real life caused huge political problems for the Reagan administration and eventually met an ugly end — which will be interesting to see in the context of a big studio picture. The cast also features Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Jesse Plemons, E. Roger Mitchell Caleb Landry Jones and Lola Kirke. Mena is shooting inAtlantaas of this week.
