Since May, Tom Cruise has been attached to 20th Century Fox’s Wichita, a surprisingly decent-sounding (for Fox) action comedy from 3:10 to Yuma director James Mangold, co-starring Cameron Diaz.  The project had been known previously as “Wichita” and “Trouble Man”, but Fox apparently decided it needed a new title that more fit the studio who brought us Big Momma’s House, Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Squeakwel, etc.  So now it’s called… KNIGHT & DAY.

Horrible puns in the title always make for horrible movies — see also: All About Steve, Made of Honor, the Russell Brand-Easter bunny movie entitled I Hop.  Was it really worth changing the name just to humor the executive who tells everyone how clever his niece is?  “Knight & Day” makes it sound like an 80s buddy flick, in which former radio comedy team Hank Knight and Everette Day have to put aside their differences and reunite for one more big score.  In short, it sounds like the 1989 Babaloo Mandel pilot, “Knight & Daye,” starring Marty in the Morning’s Joe Cipriano.  And no, I didn’t make any of that up.  Well done, Fox.  Looks like you really “Mangold” this one!  Hey, are you hiring?