Tom Cruise to film movie in B.R. in 2012

Tom Cruise will shoot the $100 million sci-fi film Horizons in Baton Rouge next year. Universal Pictures has set up an office at Celtic Media Centre, and construction is under way for the film’s sets, says Patrick Mulhearn, director of Studio Operations of Raleigh Studios Baton Rouge at Celtic Media Centre. Horizons will utilize multiple stages through June and one stage through mid-August of 2012. Principal photography begins in March. The film is directed by Tron: Legacy helmer Joseph Kosinski, who developed the story first as a comic book called Oblivion. Set in a bleak future where the earth is polluted beyond recognition, the film follows Cruise’s character, a disgraced soldier, as he is sent on a deadly mission to earth to battle mysterious inhabitants. Actress Jessica Chastain, who appeared in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, will co-star opposite Cruise. —Jeff Roedel