Tom Cruise Is Having "Very Serious Conversations" To Return To His Tropic Thunder Roots And Make An ENTIRE Movie Playing Les Grossman? Uhh SOLD!
(Variety) - On Josh Horowitz’s “Happy Sad Confused Podcast,” “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” director Christopher McQuarrie said he and Cruise have had some very real discussions about making a standalone Les Grossman film. “The conversations we’ve had about Les are so fucking funny,” McQuarrie said. “[Cruise and I are] talking about it, we’re having very serious conversations about it, and how best to do it. It ultimately comes down to what that character is.”
“We don’t even think about the structure, we play with scenes,” he explained. “Just to be sitting at a breakfast table, not talking about the movie we’re making for a minute, is such decompression. And just riffing with Tom playing Les Grossman at the table, it was one of the real joys of making this movie
SOMEBODY GET ME A FUCKING DIET COKE! Folks this is incredible news for any fan of Tom Cruise, 'Tropic Thunder', or great theatre experiences in general. If you somehow haven't seen Tropic by now I'm not sure what's happened in your life to prevent such a good time, but go ahead and close out this blog to go watch now. For my money it's 1 of the greatest comedies ever, along with really fun legitimate war movie action and a simply stellar cast. Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr, Jack Black, Danny McBride, Bill Hader, Matthew McConaughey etc. It's just a damn delight. And so damn funny.
Now forgive me for sounding like a Boomer prick but they really don't make em like that anymore either. Man what a run the late 2000s were between Tropic, 'Wedding Crashers', 'Superbad', 'Hangover', 'Step Brothers'... almost brings a tear to your eye that R-Rated comedies on that quality level are all but extinct. But I digress.
It's definitely not hyperbole to say Les Grossman is 1 of Tom Cruise's best characters ever too. Certainly up there with his most entertaining even in a small amount of screen time but also, maybe saved his career? If you go back and look at his run in the early 2000s there weren't a ton of hits and even more so, A LOT of controversy. Whether it was the Scientology stuff, jumping on Oprah's couch about Katie Holmes stuff, Mission Impossible 2 & 3 not really smashing the box office, our guy Tom was in kind of a tough spot.
But that all turned around when he lent a hand to help out his buddy Ben Stiller, and created Les Grossman out of thin air after reading an early Tropic script.
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"I want fat hands and I want to dance" is such an incredible request from a Hollywood legend on that level. Even with Tom's popularity a little down it was still insane to still him pop up playing a character so far removed from anything he did before. I'll never forget seeing that movie with my dad in theaters and having literal tears streaming down my face when he's yelling at Flaming Dragon. Social media was still in its infancy and they didn't promote he was in the movie so it was a truly rare moment of being shocked to your core in the cinema. If only we could still experience that today. But I digress.
I don't need to know anything more about this Les project, they already have my money. As a Day 1 Mapother Fan it's been awesome seeing him get back on the horse over the past decade and completely rewrite his public persona too. Between the last 4 Mission Impossibles, Top Gun 2, all he's done to mentor the next generation of great young actors, he's never been hotter. And also never been more insane with his willingness to entertain the audience.
If Tom Cruise is this casual about hanging off a biplane with 1 tiny wire and NO parachute, imagine how hard he'll commit to being Les Grossman again? Those arms are gonna be hairy as fuck.
Just terrific stuff. And based off Tom's other times playing Les for the MTV Movie Awards, I really don't think you could get tired of this character. He's a magnificent cunt. And gotta imagine pretty accurate to most of the Hollywood executives he's actually dealt with during his illustrious career. Maybe he can have Ben Stiller hook him up with AppleTV to do a crossover on S2 of 'The Studio'. Let Les Grossman COOK! He can do this all day.
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As long as there's Diet Coke. And some pretty boy actors to fuck with.
Hopefully Christopher McQuarrie isn't blowing smoke up our puckers because this idea is beyond GOLD Jerry. Been great to see McQ & Tom form a modern day Scorsese & DeNiro relationship the past 15 years. Clearly they trust each other and clearly they make movie magic together. Let's keep it going boys!
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Just make sure you keep Tom Crooze on speed dial in case there's any really crazy stunts/dance sequences involved. I'm sure he's still waiting for a call.
PS: why don't they put ANY effort into the MTV Movie Awards anymore? They used to have the best skits ever. Fuck you MTV. That shit used to mean something to me. Clean it up.
DIET COKE!!!