Tom Cruise is reportedly joining director Doug Liman in developing the sci-fi film Luna Park, and is also eyeing a starring role in it.

Cruise and Liman are currently waiting on a new draft of the script and nothing is set in stone yet, but Variety suggests this is an auspicious sign for a project that had long been in development limbo.

Liman's passion project was initially prepared to move forward in 2011 with Chris Evans and Andrew Garfield in leading roles. It was greenlit by Paramount, but production halted when Skydance Pictures bailed, due to its budget surpassing $100 million USD.

Luna Park's plot follows a group of renegade employees who travel to the moon to steal an energy source.

Cruise and Liman worked together on Edge of Tomorrow as well as the upcoming drug thriller Mena, which is due out in 2017.