Cruise is one of several actors mentioned to star in a movie version of the 1941 novel about a vicious hustler who climbs to the top of the movie industry.

One of the first actors to be mentioned as the star of a possible movie version of Budd Schulberg's 1941 novel about an amoral manipulator who scams his way to the top of the movie business.

Stiller has been talking since the mid-1990s about starring as the despicable user who schemes his way into running a Hollywood studio.