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For several years Tom Cruise has been attached to El Presidente but the movie has never actually got off the ground. Now he’s moving it back up the list again, with THR reporting that Doug Liman has signed on to direct the comedy.

Liman and Cruise have just worked together on the sci-fi flick Edge of Tomorrow, now they’re reuniting with a movie about a Secret Service agent (Tom Cruise) who is assigned to protect America’s worst former President, an alcoholic womanizer who was never elected President, but was elevated from Vice President after the Commander-in-Chief died.

As he has been for the last couple of year, Jack Nicholson is being eyed to play the former President, who must go on the run with his new protector when a threat is made on his life. However it’s not known whether they’ll be able to convince Jack to step on a movie set once more.

Jesse Armstrong and Brooklyn Nine-Nine co-creator Daniel J. Goor wrote the initial script, with Paul Attanasio providing a rewrite. There’s no news on exactly when it might shoot.

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ACTORS: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson DIRECTORS: Doug Liman

Jack Nicholson’s screen roles have become ever rarer. We’ve only had two films from him in the last two years, How Do You Know in 2010 and The Bucket List in 2007. However now Warner Bros. is trying to lure him back in front of the camera according to THR, offering Nicholson a pivotal role in their courtroom drama, The Judge. Robert Downey Jr. is already attached to star, and Nicholson would play his father.

Downey Jr. will play an attorney, who returns home for his mother’s funeral. The lawyer comes to learn that his father is suspected of killing her mom. He must defend his dad, a judge with Alzheimer’s disease, reconnecting with the man he walked away from years ago.

It isn’t known if the two-time Oscar winner, who is famously picky about which roles he takes on, will accept the offer. Nick Schenk (Gran Torino) penned the original screenplay, with Bill Dubuque offering rewrites. David Dobkin will direct. The plan is to shoot sometime next year.