Variety reports that Cruise is most likely to opt for independent production Lions for Lambs - a political drama involving US troops in Afghanistan that Robert Redford is likely to direct. Cruise would play the role of a congressman in the feature, with Meryl Streep also being courted by producers.
The two other possible productions are Spike Lee's Selling Time about a man trying to change the worst day of his life, and The Ha-Ha, where Cruise would play a mute Gulf War vet.