Del Toro Wants Cruise for Mountains Of Madness?

Well this is an interesting one, by now most know that Guilermo Del Toro's next movie will be his dream project, an adaption of the H.P. Lovercraft story "At The Mountains Of Madness." Well just after that was announced the news circulated that he had dropped out of a Van Helsing project at Universal that also featured Tom Cruise's involvement, now news comes from Collider that apparently Del Toro wants Cruise for the lead in Mountains.......but the studio want James McAvoy.

Now I get in the US some still have an issue with Cruise, it's strange to me that the country with the world's biggest porn distributors and endless videos on MTV with guys waving guns rapping about drugs, murder and bitches, has such a "moral" hang up over him being in a weird religion, but oh well, the rest of the world has moved on to more pressing matters, however clearly Universal are worried and want the massive star James McAvoy to head up their $150M tent-pole because that is a much safer bet.

Ok, ok, before anyone spits the dummy, I like McAvoy, he's a talented young actor no doubt and was superb in "The Last King Of Scotland" But for this I really see Cruise as a better fit given his age and the intensity he can bring to the role, however my biggest concern is that the studio is already trying to control Del Toro, so for me it's like this, I'm looking forward to this film but I hope the lead, whoever it is, will be Del Toro's choice not the studios, as starting out with the director compromising from the beginning is a bad omen in my view.