Tom Cruise Attached to Political Jerry Maguire, and 5 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today

Also in this Friday edition of The Broadsheet: Blake Lively, John Travolta and Uma Thurman are Savages... one of the biggest movie stars in the world heads to The Office... more on Jeremy Renner's Bourne casting... and more ahead.

· Dan Fogelman is having a bit of a moment. Not only did he pen the buzzed-about Crazy, Stupid, Love for Warner Bros., but he also just sold them a pitch for seven figures. (SFX: cash register.) The studio outbid four others for the untitled project, about a disgraced politician who heads back to his hometown looking for another chance. Tom Cruise is attached to star, which makes sense since this one sounds like Jerry Maguire for Congress. Fingers crossed that Fogelman has better luck with a Tom Cruise attachment than Guillermo del Toro. [Deadline]

· Just go ahead and get excited for Savages. The Oliver Stone-directed adaptation of Don Winslow's bestseller about drugs and kidnapping has added John Travolta and Uma Thurman to its bursting cast. Translation: Pulp Fiction reunion! Travolta is set to play an over-it-all DEA agent, while Thurman will play mother to Blake Lively -- the TIME 100 headscratcher has also been officially locked down. The trio joins previously cast stars Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, Salma Hayek and Benicio Del Toro. As long as Stone is up for the challenge -- and judging from his recent output that can be set as "maybe" -- this should be awesomesauce. [Deadline]

· In case you missed it last night, Jeremy Renner is your new Bourne franchise leader! The omnipresent actor beat out Joel Edgerton and a slew of other young Hollywood types for the role, and now has four potential franchises on his ledger: Bourne, Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol, The Avengers and Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. Why is that not the best thing in the world? Allow CinemaBlend's Katey Rich to explain. [CinemaBlend]

· The season finale of The Office just got another dose of major starpower. Jim Carrey will make an appearance on the episode, joining the previously announced Ricky Gervais, Will Arnett, James Spader, Ray Romano and Catherine Tate. Will Ferrell -- who has been on the last two Office episodes -- is not currently scheduled to appear. [TVLine]

· How's this for a pairing? Nanette Burstein (Going the Distance) will direct Unforgiving World from a script by the always-great Nicole Holofcener (most recently Please Give). A remake of a French film, World has a Sliding Doors quality to it -- the film follows two newlyweds who vie for the same job at their architecture firm, and the "different outcomes" that would occur if each got the promotion. [THR]

· 90210 star Jessica Stroup has been added to the cast of Seth MacFarlane's Ted. She'll play a co-worker friend of Mila Kunis who has slept with boss Joel McHale on many different occasions. Mark Wahlberg stars as a man who can talk to his come-to-life teddy bear. Ah, there's just nothing like a low-concept Hollywood comedy. [THR]