Can We Have More of Tom Cruise the Actor, Please?

Over the weekend, we got the release of the trailer for 2017sThe Mummymovie.

In it, as many were quick to point out, Tom Cruise is soon running again.

But then, whenever he takes a role a little off the usual track, he does.

He held his own against Paul Newman in Martin ScorsesesThe Color Of Money.

A richly deserved Oscar nod followed.

There is fine running in both of those films.

But this all came to an end towards the end of the 2000s.

I wonder ifLions For LambsandValkyriewere a bit of a turning point, though.

Cruise, in fact, owned a percentage of the new United Artists, at least until 2011.

Cruises second, and final, United Artists venture would fare a little better.

This was Bryan SingersValkyrie, a gamble for Cruise in which he was front and centre.

It would finally open in December 2008, earning solid reviews, and decent box office.

Not traditionally Cruise-like levels of box office, but decent box office nonetheless.

Yet it would also spell the end for that particular chapter in United Artists life.

And I dearly wish we can see the latter part of Tom Cruises work again.

Thankfully, it looks like we might get a chance.

But already, my ears have pricked up.

Mind you, Im still buying a ticket forThe Mummy.