Showing posts with label Tom Cruise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tom Cruise. Show all posts

Friday, December 12, 2008

Les Grossman Wants To (censored) Your Face Even More

Tom Cruise earned his most positive praises in a long time this past summer with his hilarious turn as studio exec Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder. After yesterday's announcement that Cruise had been nominated for a Golden Globe for the role, today we find that we may get more of the foul-mouthed booty shaker. Tom Cruise spoke to E! Online and says that he's been talking it over with Ben Stiller.

"I’ve talked about doing different videos with the character," Cruise said. "I’ve started working with Ben [Stiller] on it, and we’ve kind of talked about different things to do. We were gonna do some in our free time, but we haven’t found the free time…yet."

I, for one, would love to see more of Grossman. For all of Tropic Thunder's hilarity, nothing surprised me more or gave me more pleasure than watching it the first time and saying, "Wait, is that..? Oh my God, could it be..? HOLY SHIT IT IS!" and hearing the rest of the audience react with me. C'mon, you gotta agree it was a great performance. Play-ya! Plaaaaaay-ya!

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Monday, November 17, 2008

Christopher McQuarrie Teams With UA, Del Toro


United Artists has signed Christopher McQuarrie, the Oscar-winning writer behind The Usual Suspects and the upcoming Valkyrie, for two upcoming projects. The first is The Champions, based on a 1960's British sci-fi TV show that follows three secret agents who are granted super powers after encountering an advanced civilization. Guillermo del Toro is helping with writing duties and will co-produce alongside McQuarrie, though no director is yet attached.

The second project is The Monster Of Florence, based on the best-selling book of the same name by author Douglas Preston and Italian journalist Mario Spezi. The book tells the true story of Preston and Spezi's investigation into a series of grisly unsolved murders that occurred in Italy from 1968 to 1985. Their investigation spins out of control when the two are implicated for obstruction of justice and Spezi is even named as a suspect for being the titular "Monster" himself. Tom Cruise, who stars in Valkyrie and is a co-owner of UA, may play one of the two leads.

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