Tom Cruise's 'Wichita' Now Called 'Knight & Day'

Perhaps 20th Century Fox is listening to complaints these days. For months, people have chimed in on what a bad title Wichita is for a movie dealing with international espionage, even though part of the film is set there. And now, the Tom Cruise-Cameron Diaz movie has a shiny new title. Fox will call the action comedy (a la Mr. and Mrs. Smith) Knight & Day, which is a slight uptick from another working title, Trouble Man, but not truly preferable to Wichita, in my opinion. It sounds like a show ABC passed on before signing thirtysomething back in the 80s. At least you could have some tongue-in-cheek fun in the marketing campaign with spies in central Kansas... That's the only big change for the flick, which opens on July 2nd, an obvious play to put Tom Cruise back on the summer radar. James Mangold wrote the most recent draft and will direct it, and if he gets half the chemistry out of Cruise and Diaz he did from Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon in Walk the Line, I think Fox would be more than happy with that. The trouble is, almost nobody has chemistry with Diaz on screen. The film will also star Peter Sarsgaard, Viola Davis, Olivier Martinez, Mark Blucas, Maggie Grace, and Paul Dano, and those are all pretty good supporting players for something like this. In fact, the only thing that anyone seems to have real trouble with is the title. And I'm not sure they're over that hump yet.

Comments

[Franklin]

Knight and Day? That is horrific. Bad Puns for movies never work out

[Lisa]

Really hate the new title. I actually liked Witchita.