Amend To That

Foriegn language film Oscar winner for The Lives Of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (pictured) is in talks to direct Tom Cruise in the thiller The 28th Amendment reports Variety .

The film has Ctuise as the U.S. president who discovers the existence of a secret organization that runs the government and wants him dead.

Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci wrote the project as a spec script a decade ago.

For Cruise this is he next best thing he do since leaving Phillip Noyce's Edwin A. Salt, a spy thriller that has since become Salt-with Angelina Jolie in the title role.