Tom Cruise takes on an undead adversary* in this Friday’s “The Mummy,” and he made news last week talking up his plans to once again enter the cockpit* for “Top Gun: Maverick.” But before he gets to work on that aerial* action sequel, he’ll be getting a far different project off the ground: “American Made,” the based-on-a-true-story tale of a pilot recruited by the CIA to transport contraband* in the 1980s. Directed by Cruise’s “Edge of Tomorrow” director Doug Liman, the crime saga* is set to arrive this fall, preceded by its just-released first trailer.

Cruise plays pilot Barry Seal, recruited by Domhnall Gleeson’s federal bigwig* to keep tabs on Pablo Escobar’s Medellin cartel by flying drugs and cash in and out of America. While doing illicit* things on the orders of the U.S government sounds like just the right sort of job for a cocky* hotshot* like Seal, things don’t go as smoothly as he expects, as we see the above promo, which is chockablock* with armed men pointing guns at Cruise’s face, governmental agents arresting and/or talking tough to him, and his wife (Sarah Wright) candidly admitting that she doesn’t trust him.

Whether reading up on Al Capone or crash-landing on a suburban* street in a mist of cocaine, Cruise appears ready to navigate a maelstrom of drug-business insanity in “American Made,” which also stars Jesse Plemons and Jayma Mays. It lands in theaters on September 29. (SD-Agencies)