Adam Shankman Confirms Tom Cruise for ROCK OF AGES Film

After months of speculation, ROCK OF AGES film director Adam Shankman has confrimed that Tom Cruise has officially begun work as Stacee Jaxx.  He tells the Toronto Sun: "I think we're going to see him every drop the rock'n'roll god. He's pouring himself in this part in a way I've never had an actor do. It's pretty intense. Between the voice lessons, the incredible study... researching the period, it's like 1987, just going there!"

Cruise will perform Styx's 'Renegade' and Bon Jovi's 'Wanted Dead Or Alive'. Alec Baldwin is also in talks for the film, as is Anne Hathaway, who would share a duet of Foreigner's I Want To Know What Love Is with Cruise. Gwyneth Paltrow had hoped to sign on, but is unavailable, according to Shankman.

The film will be directed by Adam Shankman and is being adapted for the screen by it's stage scribe, Chris D'Arienzo. 

The music that 'ignited a generation' is heating up Broadway in ROCK OF AGES. The classic rock love story of the decade erupts into Broadway's best party, all to the sounds of such feel-good, sing-out-loud songs as Every Rose Has Its Thorn, I Wanna Know What Love Is, Here I Go Again, Don't Stop Believin' and more. This five-time Tony nominated musical is nothin' but a good time.

ROCK OF AGES opened on April 7, 2009 at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre to critical acclaim, following an off Broadway engagement in the fall of 2008. The Broadway production was nominated for Five 2009 Tony Awards®, including Best Musical, and New Line Records released the Original Broadway Cast Recording in July 2009, featuring 28 songs from the show. A New Line Cinema/Warner Bros. film of the musical, directed by Adam Shankman (Hairspray), is scheduled to be released in 2011.

For ticket to and more information on the show, visit www.rockofagesmusical.com.