WICHITA IS NOW "KNIGHT & DAY"

By dayvidday on Wed, Oct 14, 2009 5:28 pm

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According to the press release below, the Tom Cruise movie that has been filming here in Boston is now called "Knight & Day."

Now, I'm not in a focus group or otherwise, but I'd be much more prone to seeing a movie called Wichita than one that is called Knight & Day. Espcially if Cruise is playing some agent named "Knight" and Diaz is Ms. Day.

But maybe I'm wrong.

TOM CRUISE & CAMERON DIAZ IN

KNIGHT & DAY

ACTION-COMEDY NOW IN PRODUCTION

FROM DIRECTOR JAMES MANGOLD

Its working title was “Untitled Wichita Project”

LOS ANGELES, (October 13, 2009) __ Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz are now before the cameras on the action comedy KNIGHT & DAY.  The Twentieth Century Fox / New Regency co-production began principal photography under the working title “Untitled Wichita Project.”

James Mangold (“3:10 to Yuma,” “Walk the Line”) directs KNIGHT & DAY from a screenplay he co-wrote with Scott Frank (“Minority Report,” “Out of Sight”). (The writing credit is not final.)  The film is produced by Cathy Konrad (“3:10 to Yuma,” Walk the Line”), Steve Pink (“Grosse Point Blank”) and Todd Garner (“Paul Blart: Mall Cop”). Executive producers are Joe Roth (“The Great Debaters”), E. Bennett Walsh (“Kill Bill”) and Arnon Milchan (“Mr. and Mrs. Smith”).

In KNIGHT & DAY, Cruise and Diaz have a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure, where nothing and no one – even the now fugitive couple – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival ultimately hinging on the battle of truth vs. trust.  KNIGHT & DAY is now shooting in Massachusetts, and will also film on other locations around the world including, Spain, Austria, and the tropics.

Also starring are Peter Sarsgaard (“An Education”) as a federal agent relentlessly pursuing the couple; Viola Davis (“Doubt”) as a CIA director trying to decipher the true purpose of their high-wire activities; Paul Dano (“There Will Be Blood”) as an eccentric genius behind a revolutionary technology; and Olivier Martinez (“Unfaithful”) as a ruthless arms manufacturer.  Co-starring are Maggie Grace (“Taken”) and Marc Blucas (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”).

Twentieth Century Fox will release KNIGHT & DAY on Fourth of July weekend (July 2nd), 2010.

One of the world’s largest producers and distributors of motion pictures, Fox Filmed Entertainment produces, acquires and distributes motion pictures throughout the world.  These motion pictures are produced or acquired by the following units of FFE:  Twentieth Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, Fox Searchlight Pictures, and Twentieth Century Fox Animation.