Following his show-stealing dance performance with Jennifer Lopez at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday, Tom Cruise is to reprise his role as foul-mouthed movie mogul Les Grossman in a new comedy.
Cruise first played Grossman in 2008's 'Tropic Thunder', directed by and starring Ben Stiller.
A statement about the new movie reads: "Paramount Pictures and MTV Films announced today that they are set to develop a movie around mega-producer Les Grossman.
"The announcement comes on the heels of Grossman’s groundbreaking and visionary production of the soon-to-be Emmy® award-winning 2010 MTV Movie Awards Sunday night.
"Tom Cruise, along with Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld of Red Hour Films will produce and have secured the life rights to Grossman."
Paramount Film president Adam Goodman said: "Everything I learned in this business, I've learned from Les. I started out as his assistant, and from the first day he threw his desk at me when I got his lunch order wrong, I have loved him like a father. I am forever grateful to Ben and Stuart Cornfeld and their ability to secure his highly-coveted life rights."
Asked about the screenplay for the film, Grossman 'himself' replied: "To quote my great friend Kirk Lazarus [Robert Downey Jr's character in 'Tropic Thunder'], 'I don’t read the script, the script reads me.'
