Billy Ray Developing Tom Cruise's Jon Sarkin Biopic

Tom Cruise will be starring in a biopic about off-kilter artist Jon Sarkin. The star has tapped Shattered Glass writer/director Billy Ray to develop the project.

"I'm writing a screenplay through Cruise-Wagner Productions as a star vehicle for Tom," Ray told BBCi Films. "It's based on an article in GQ magazine about an artist named Jon Sarkin. He started out as a chiropractor. This very rigid, controlled guy had a stroke, a heart attack and a coma and came out of the hospital two years later a totally changed human being. All of a sudden, he was this rambling, manic child."

"The screenplay is about him and his wife and their little boy, and how this family changed and how they reacted to this new man. It's a great piece."