Tom Cruise is in early talks to star on the new take on the 1957 Western
3:10 to Yuma, according to Variety.
James Mangold will direct this summer, with Cathy Konrad producing for Columbia Pictures.
Cruise has not yet had a meeting with Mangold. Thesp became interested in the picture after Stuart Beattie, who penned the Cruise-Jamie Foxx starrer
Collateral, turned in a rewrite of the script by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas. Word is that Cruise is interested in playing the villain, who is being brought to justice by a lone lawman.