Rumor: Tom Cruise to Voice Animated Villain in Shrek 4?

/Film - 4th Sep 2008

Tom Cruise: Cinemablend is reporting that Tom Cruise is being considered to voice one of the villain characters in Dreamworks Animation’s Shrek Goes Fourth. Cuise is doing everything he can to restore his name. First his hilarious cameo in Tropic Thunder, then news that he’s working with Sam Raimi on a superhero adaptation and now this. Shrek Goes Fourth is scheduled to hit theaters on May 21st 2010.

























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