Tom Cruise and producing partner Paula Wagner are to make a sequel to the 1996 classic The Birdcage. The actor's studio United Artists will produce the second installment of the MGM film about a gay cabaret owner and his drag queen boyfriend who act heterosexual in a bid to impress their son's future in-laws.

Wagner told an MGM conference, "We are in the early stages of making a sequel to the Birdcage."

"The Birdcage," starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane as the gay couple, was a comedy remake of 1978 French movie La Cage Aux Folles (The Cage Of Fools).

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