Tom Cruise/Sam Raimi: 'Sleeper' is a go

G4's "Attack of the Show" announced that the long-rumored project that would team Tom Cruise with Sam "Spider-man" Raimi for a film verison of comic-book writer Ed Brubaker's "Sleeper" is a go.

Brubaker had recently told MTV, "I talked to one of the producers a couple of weeks ago, and they have a new screenwriter that they hired."

"Sleeper" -- not to be confused with the Woody Allen film of the same name -- is described on firstshowing.net as a story about an operative whose fusion with an alien artifact makes him impervious to pain and allows him to pass it on to others through skin contact. He is placed undercover in a villainous organization by an intelligence agency and falls for a member of the group, named Miss Misery.

Cruise continues to build his sci-fi action cred after "Minority Report," "War of the Worlds" and, of course, the "Mission Impossible" films. Raimi is fresh off of the scary-funny (that's according to horror fan Allan Walton) "Drag Me to Hell."

Brubaker had other things on his mind besides "Sleeper," what with resurrecting Steve Rogers in "Captain America: Reborn." Speaking of "The First Avenger: Captain America" film, targeted for 2011, he said he's likely to be involved in that project as well. “I’ve seen the preliminary stuff for the movie, a year or so ago before [Marvel Studios] hired the new screenwriter and director,” Brubaker told MTV News. “I know Kevin Feige was talking about bringing me in when they put together the ‘Captain America’ brain trust for the movie —  like they did for 'Iron Man' with Matt Fraction and (Brian) Bendis."