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Loosely attached to comedy from scribbler Adam Brooks

With buzz encompassing his comedic turn in “Tropic Thunder,” Tom Cruise is eyeing an regular bigger humourous role.

The A-lister is loosely attached to “Food Fight,” a warmhearted comedy virtually a persnickety New York chef world Health Organization is forced to cook meals at a shoal cafeteria, with Cruise playing the office of the chef. The project is set up at Universal-based Working Title.

Veteran scribe Adam Brooks, world Health Organization most of late wrote and directed the divorce dramedy “Definitely, Maybe,” is attached to write the screenplay. “Drillbit Taylor” helmer Steven Brill had been in talks to direct “Food Fight,” simply they came to naught; a search for a new director is under way.

“Food Fight” would cross a divergence for Cruise, who has made few comedies since his prisonbreak role in 1983’s “Risky business”: His last such lead role was in 1996’s dramedy “Jerry Maguire.”

In “Tropic Thunder,” Cruise plays an adiposis, over-the-top studio apartment exec in what throw out word has billed as a movie-stealing performance. Cruise has had other bit comedy parts over the years in films like “Austin Powers: Goldmember.”

The “Food Fight” fond regard apparently is still loose for the star, world Health Organization has several projects in development as an actor and producer.

Cruise succeeding stars in United Artists’ historical action film “Valkyrie,” in which he plays a very noncomedic part: Klaus von Stauffenberg, the Nazi commander who plotted to kill Hitler.

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