It's been over two years since it was announced that Tom Cruise and Ben Stiller were looking to team up for The Hardy Men, a comedy based off the classic book series The Hardy Boys. Well today we got word from The Hollywood Reporter that Men in Black scribe Ed Solomon will be inking the Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) directed comedy for 20th Century Fox.

Tom Cruise and Ben Stiller have long been friends, and they've proven their comedic chops together before in an MTV Movie Awards short where Ben Stiller portrayed stunt double Tom Crooze. Then again they teamed up, though never really together on screen, in the Stiller directed comedy Tropic Thunder with Tom Cruise in the Golden Globe nominated role of enraged and over-the-top studio executive Les Grossman.

Personally I think Cruise and Stiller together as a duo on screen makes for a hilarious movie. Cruise's rants and anger explosions in Tropic Thunder were some of the favorite parts of the film, and it really turned down the bashing on his career a bit. I'm looking forward to this going into production soon. For your enjoyment we've included the Tom Crooze: Mission Improbable short below.