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Tom Cruise's former business partner Paula Wagner is developing a feature film musical based on Miss Saigon, the West End/Broadway play that dominated the stage scene throughout the 1990s. Lee Daniels (Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire) is attached to helm the film.

Throughout the 1980s and into the 90s Wagner was Cruise's power agent at CAA, eventually leaving the company to form Cruise/Wagner productions when Tom wanted to get his own action franchise going with Mission: Impossible. Wagner stuck with Cruise when he went to run the new United Artists back in 2006, producing Valkyrie and Lions For Lambs before deciding to strike out as her own boss again. She's now set up her own production company, Chestnut Ridge Productions.

No screenwriter has been hired on the Miss Saigon movie yet but Wagner wants to have the project filming next year for a 2011 release. Also serving as a producer on the film will be Cameron Mackintosh, the same fellow that produced the famous musical.