KEY POINTS:
Tom Cruise will join forces with Robert Redford in his first movie since an enforced break following the completion of Mission: Impossible III.
Cruise has been considering his options since his bitter divorce from Paramount Pictures.
He scored a surprise coup when he decided to relaunch the mothballed United Artists studio. His collaboration with Redford in Lions for Lambs will be his first UA venture.
Redford will direct and star in the political drama in which Cruise plays a congressman and Redford an idealistic academic.
