The A-lister and newly minted Hollywood mogul Tom Cruise has signed on to star in an untitled World War II thriller revolving around a real-life assassination attempt on infamous Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.

Bryan Singer (Superman Returns) will direct.

That is, until he sat down with Singer, who was able to carve out time to do the movie before filming another sequel featuring the Man of Steel for Warner Bros.

Per the trades, the blockbuster filmmaker persuaded Cruise to play a pivotal character in the war drama, which is based on an actual conspiracy plot hatched by German generals who believed Hitler needed to die in order to make peace with the Allies and stave off a Soviet invasion.  The coup was a failure, however, and the Gestapo rounded up anyone even faintly involved and executed many of them.

"After reading the script, Tom and I knew immediately that this was a film that we had to make," Wagner said in a statement. "As an added bonus, because of Bryan Singer's involvement and Tom's admiration for him as a filmmaker, as well as the excellence of the script, the project attracted Tom as an actor. I cannot think of a more perfect combination of creative elements for our second production."