Marks is the writer on Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book, and is also attached to script comic book adaptation Federal Bureau of Physics for Warner Bros. and David Goyer. Tom Cruise is expected to return as fighter pilot Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, but he may not be spending a lot of time in the air. While Cruise has previously said the film would be in the same tone as the original, Scott was envisioning something entirely different. He wanted to tell a story set very much in the present when drone technology has become integral to the war effort.
Even with this move things are still pretty early on. Paramount and Jerry Bruckheimer still need to find a director and there doesn't seem to be a timetable for filming. [THR]
