Perfect Casting, part 2

[Lash Dresden]

Realistically, I suspect Tom Cruise would demand more control over the project than Jim would be willing to give him.

[fantazero]

Realistically, I suspect Tom Cruise would demand more control over the project than Jim would be willing to give him.

also Harry is not a midget

[Snowleopard]

Realistically, I suspect Tom Cruise would demand more control over the project than Jim would be willing to give him.

Hey, Paramount dropped Cruise as one of their major stars.  Studios DO NOT do that unless the actor is somehow being a real pain in the tuchis.  And while MI3 or whatever number it was didn't do as well as expected - it wasn't so bad that the studio would respond that way.  Something else was going on behind the scenes.  Cruise would mutate the heck out of a DF script - to a point where you'd hardly recognize it as JB's work.

[hatshep2]

Hey, Paramount dropped Cruise as one of their major stars.  Studios DO NOT do that unless the actor is somehow being a real pain in the tuchis.  And while MI3 or whatever number it was didn't do as well as expected - it wasn't so bad that the studio would respond that way.  Something else was going on behind the scenes.  Cruise would mutate the heck out of a DF script - to a point where you'd hardly recognize it as JB's work.

Very good points, Snowleopard - amen to that! Even if he were a good actor and looked right for the part he still wouldn't work.

[Icecream]

NO TOM CRUISE FOR ANYTHING IN A DF MOVIE!!
End of rant.  Man can't act and would destroy the movie trying to make it fit him.

ahem

fine. I know the perfect role for him. Kirby in TC.

[Snowleopard]

Hey IC, TC wouldn't take on so minor a role without, again, mutating the heck out of it.

[sjsharks]

Hey IC, TC wouldn't take on so minor a role without, again, mutating the heck out of it.

You mean he would make it a more violent death

[Snowleopard]

You mean he would make it a more violent death

No, he probably would have the character somehow take out the Shag and survive horrible wounds that no WW could while HD dithered in the background wringing his hands.  That kind of mutation.

[Lash Dresden]

also Harry is not a midget

See my previous post about camera tricks and special effects. If they can make Elijah Wood et al look like hobbits, they can make Tom Cruise look like not a hobbit.

[Snowleopard]

See my previous post about camera tricks and special effects. If they can make Elijah Wood et al look like hobbits, they can make Tom Cruise look like not a hobbit.

See my post about TC ruining a HD movie by making it all about TC not about HD.
Don't care about his height - care that he can't act and doesn't make good story choices and wants authors to modify their work for him even if it destroys the story.  He did that with one writer fortunately who didn't sell out and his script was picked up by an actor who did it justice.  True story.

[hatshep2]

See my post about TC ruining a HD movie by making it all about TC not about HD.
Don't care about his height - care that he can't act and doesn't make good story choices and wants authors to modify their work for him even if it destroys the story.  He did that with one writer fortunately who didn't sell out and his script was picked up by an actor who did it justice.  True story.

I'm intrigued - which movie was that and who ended up playing the role?

[Snowleopard]

I'm intrigued - which movie was that and who ended up playing the role?

I think it was the movie(not sure of title) = In the Line of Fire - about the SS guy who was at Kennedy's assasination and wasn't able to protect the president.  Come forward to present day where an assassin is threatening the current president and, I didn't see the movie, may have shot Kennedy and the older SS agent is in the middle of it all.
The writer of the script who was in deep financial trouble was approached by Cruise's people about the script.  When the writer pointed out that the hero had to have been alive and an adult at the time of the Kennedy assassination - he was basically told that he could change it and make the hero younger.  Thus completely destroying the whole idea of the script.  The writer passed on Cruises offer though he, as I said, was in deep financial trouble.  Fortunately Clint Eastwood came along and bought the script.

[Lash Dresden]

See my post about TC ruining a HD movie by making it all about TC not about HD.
Don't care about his height - care that he can't act and doesn't make good story choices and wants authors to modify their work for him even if it destroys the story.  He did that with one writer fortunately who didn't sell out and his script was picked up by an actor who did it justice.  True story.

Oh, I'm not advocating for Tom Cruise to have anything to do with anything Dresden.  I'm just making cracks about the fact that he's about five-foot-nothing and has a massive Napoleon complex.

[hatshep2]

Oh, okay - thanks, Snowleopard. Good for that writer, sticking to his guns like that!

Oh, I'm not advocating for Tom Cruise to have anything to do with anything Dresden.  I'm just making cracks about the fact that he's about five-foot-nothing and has a massive Napoleon complex.

Lol! He does seem to, at that. 

[۞†Grey Warden†۞]

*glad everyone forgot it was he who mentioned TC agian*

 yes well how about *sad* heath Ledger for Madrigal Wraith in "Perfect" Casting