Tom Cruise, the star of the American action spy thriller film Mission: Impossible, is in talks to join Universal Studios' reboot of the American action adventure horror film - The Mummy.

Sources claimed that Universal Studios has been looking for a big star to anchor the reboot of The Mummy, and with hopes up that the American actor and filmmaker Tom Cruise would fill the role.

The film and television writer, producer and director - Alex Kurtzman, will be in the director's chair for The Mummy reboot. The film will be set in modern day and is slated for release on March 24, 2017. The American screenwriter and author - Jon Spaihts, wrote the script, although plot details are still being kept.

Director Alex Kurtzman, Chris Morgan (American screenwriter) and the American film producer and movie executive - Sean Daniel, will produce the upcoming The Mummy reboot.

Universal Studios' The Mummy is arranged in advance as the first movie in a series of interconnected monster films since Universal Studios desires to build a cinematic universe out of its vault of classic creature features.

Other potential films that Universal Studios will reboot revolve around the characters of Frankenstein, Dracula, the vigilante monster hunter - Van Helsing and the Bride of Frankenstein.

Tom Cruise was recently seen in the action film Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation. He was planning on reuniting with the  American film director and producer - Doug Liman, for whom Cruise recently wrapped the 1980s drug movie Mena, but when Doug Liman took on 20th Century Fox's Gambit, it left a space in  Doug Liman's schedule for The Mummy reboot.

The Mummy reboot will begin shooting in mid- February 2016. And Tom Cruise will then head back to the Mission: Impossible franchise for the sixth installment, which will shoot later in 2016.

Tom Cruise's other upcoming films include the American action thriller film Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.