For San Francisco film lovers, we are pleased to present this story from “The Moving Picture.”

New Regency has signed Christopher McQuarrie, co-writer and producer of Bryan Singer’s upcoming Valkyrie, to write Flying Tigers, a film based on the volunteer fighter squadron formed to help the Chinese fight the Japanese before the U.S. entered World War II.

According to Variety the project is being set up as potential star vehicle for Tom Cruise. The trades says the actor has been looking for a project like this, and several years ago was attached to The Few, a film about the first American pilots to battle Germans in WWII, with director Michael Mann and scribe John Logan.

Tigers isn’t the only project McQuarrie is prepping with Cruise in mind to star. He is also writing and producing with Guillermo del Toro the previously announced United Artists project The Champions. He is also rewriting the espionage drama The Tourist, for Cruise to star with Charlize Theron in the Bharat Nalluri-directed remake of the 2005 French thriller.

Champions is based on a British television series and centers on a team of government agents rescued from a plane crash in the Himalayas by an advanced civilization and given superhuman abilities.

McQuarrie previously wrote The Way of the Gun and The Usual Suspects, which was also directed by Singer.

Valkyrie opens Christmas day.

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