Tom Cruise is said to be ‘off’ the political thriller “The 28th Amendment”.

In an article that fixes on the costly script doctor’s that have been called in to polish future scripts the star plans to be part of, Variety briefly mentions that Cruise has walked from the Roberto Orci/Alex Kurtzman-penned film. At one stage Philip Noyce was set to direct the picture, and was tailoring the film for Cruise. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck will now helm.

“Amendment”, which “Star Trek” scribes Orci and Kurtzman wrote on spec in 1999, tells of a U.S president who discovers a secret cabal that runs the government and wants him dead. Cruise was to play President Ben Cahill in the Warners production.

The “Valkyrie” star has also exited “Lost for Words”, a new Working Title/Universal comedy that was originally intended to star Hugh Grant. Grant, and later Cruise, would’ve played a Hollywood actor who falls for his Chinese director after romancing her translator during their making of a film. Zhang Ziyi is set to play the female lead.

So what is Cruise doing next? Well, by all accounts, it’ll most likely be “Motorcade”, a Len Wiseman (“Live Free or Die Hard”) directed actioner about a terrorist group that assaults the President of the United States’ motorcade as it makes its way across Los Angeles. Its possible Cruise exited “28th Amendment” because “Motorcade” also fixes on the nation’s leader.