Most of the time it’s not really worth reporting that someone has simply been offered a role, as top actors get offered stuff all the time, and most of it they turn down. However the possibility that Tom Cruise might appear in a musical is definitely worth a mention.
Deadline reports that a movie version of the Broadway jukebox musical hit Rock Of Ages is in development over at New Line, and they want Cruise for a supporting role. The whole thing would be a bit of an in-joke, as the musical is a throwback to the 1980s, in which characters break the fourth wall and sing endless 80s hair metal tunes. Cruise would play a bartender, as in Cocktail.
Will he accept the role? Probably not, but with his career not what it once was and his biggest recent success being his comedic turn in Tropic Thunder, he could suprise us. Can he sing? Well, thankfully for him, with modern technology it doesn’t really matter, as pretty much anybody can be made to sound passable.