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Tom Cruise’s ego must be pretty wounded. Wait, scratch that. If Tom was a regular guy and had a regular ego that was capable of being wounded, it probably would be right now. Luckily Tom’s entire psychological makeup is pretty far from the norm, and his ego, pride, and self-worth are all covered in a protective layer of hardened Xenu juice, making him impervious to even the most rational criticisms of others.
Tom was the star of all of the previous Mission Impossible films. His people recently approached Paramount to see if they wanted to start working on MI4. Their response? Thanks, but no thanks. But as a courtesy they did offer to let Tom can produce it – which he contractually has the rights to do anyway.
Paramount’s response was to ask whether Cruise would like to produce the film—as in, produce but not star in. And, since he’s contractually guaranteed the right to produce such a film at this point, it wasn’t much of an offer. This tells us not to read too much into that supposed rapprochement between Cruise and Sumner Redstone. And it suggests that the fighting between Cruise and Paramount studio chief Brad Grey over the deal for M:I3 was a lot more rancorous than we knew at the time.
We don’t want to keep you in suspense: Cruise’s answer was no. Our source tells us that Paramount met this with a shrug, since in the not-too-distant future the studio expects that it will be free, contractually, to make the movie without involving Cruise’s production company. Some film executives say they think Paramount is being foolish, because they believe there is an avid audience for Cruise in this role. After all, the last one grossed about $400 million worldwide. (Maybe M:I4 could pair Cruise with Shia LaBoeuf as the young successor.) But Paramount seems to think it could relaunch the franchise with a young star and leave Cruise out of the equation.
[From Slate]
Sucks for you, Tom Cruise. I don’t know why, but it makes me deliciously happy. I hope somewhere deep in his subconscious, Tom is keeping a list of all his epic fails.
Slate also noticed that United Artists – the film studio which Cruise now heads up – seems to have altered images of German hero Claus von Stauffenberg to make him look more like Tom Cruise. Tom plays von Stauffenberg in the upcoming film Valkyrie.
The first photo set is the side-by-side version that United Artists released. They look pretty similar, no?
This next set adds an AP photo of von Stauffenberg (left).
In the last photo, one of Slate’s designers overlaid the AP photo of von Stauffenberg with the version released by United Artists – then put THAT photo next to their photo of Tom Cruise.
Jim Festante, a Slate designer, wrote: “Look @ the nose, mouth, and chin. Definite (but slight) altering. Also, the head’s width is squeezed slightly.” And then designer Holly Allen added this: “To me, the nose looks different and definitely the eyebrows. Cheekbones and angle of the chin, too.” Finally, as a coup de grace, designer Jacob Berlow overlaid the AP photo of von Stauffenberg with the United Artists version. Looks like someone tweaked the photo.
[From Slate]
Looks like someone at United Artists must not be feeling so confident about Valkyrie if they went to so much effort to make Tom Cruise appear more legitimate.
Written by JayBird
Posted in Movies, Photos, Tom Cruise
21 Responses to “Tom Cruise cut out of MI4; altered Valkyrie promo photo to look more like hero”
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Oh dear. Desperation. But sounds about par for the course in Tom world: make Claus von Stauffenberg look more like Tom and people will see Tom in the same heroic light as von Stauffenberg. Pure genuis. How can it fail?
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Hasn’t the MI franchise run its course?
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Wow, thats a new low. Von Stauffenberg’s family wasn’t keen on TinyTom playing portraying him so I’d imagine that they be up in arms over this!
Oh I hope Shia stays far far far away from anything remotely connected to TinyTom!
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I think so, RLR260, or rather, i hope so!
the altered photo is great, lol -
I hope the Stauffenberg family sues the crap out of Crazy Cruise. Cruise is playing the wrong guy in that movie anyway…he should be playing Hitler!
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Mission Impossible was always a show about a TEAM of agents, not just one Bond-like superspy.
They should dump Cruise, and spend the money on five or six good actors, some great international locations, and a really solid script.
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Ironically, Many people don’t consider von Stauffenberg a hero, even if he did try to asassinate Hitler. He was a Nazi through and through, an anti-semite, and just though Hitler was running the war badly and if left alive, he would lead Germany to defeat (He was right). Why is he considered a hero?
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Amen Bob-
I honestly can’t watch his movies anymore-I can’t see past the crazy-well that and his obnoxiously loud breathing.
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Anything that gets Tom Cruise out of the media the better. He is a scary looney-bird and if it’s time for his movie career to be over, yippee.
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Also amen to Bob- MI should be re-booted with some really talented actors, and made into an ensemble action-thriller. I loved the first MI (Kristen Scott Thomas, where art thou?), the last two were god-awful.
But did anyone actually see the first Cruise-produced UA film Lions for Lambs? That was so painful, I would have paid for an emergency dose of Xenu-juice.
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that NOSE ! can’t $cientology CURE that NOSE?
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WTF? Why would any retard make a movie with a Nazi as the hero?
Especially that pussy von Stauffenberg. He was a comitted Nazi until he got crippled on the Eastern Front. Only then did he volunteer to plant the bomb- only he didn’t stay and sacrifice himself but ran off and somebody moved the bomb and Hitler lived. Some hero. -
Looks like a train wreck. He should save himself and dump that crap to HBO and act like he meant to do it.
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Mission Impossible kicked ass with Peter Graves, but the movies have all sucked beyond belief. Thank God they pulled the plug on him starring in another MI film. Hopefully studio execs are beginning to realize what the rest of the world thought long ago, Tom Cruise sucks as an actor and hasn’t had a decent movie in years, maybe ever as far as I am concerned.
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The von staffenberg family didn’t want the movie to be made let alone have cruise play their father.
The release date has been moved more times than Tommy jumped on Oprah’s couch. It is destined for DVD release only?
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uhhh yeah they didn’t use the “@” symbol on slate, dumbo
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Tom Cruise’s days as a matinee idol are over. It’s actually sad because he’s a great actor.
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Psst! Hey Tom, you have the money. Why not get your nose fixed, kiddo?
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You Know what they say — Big Nose ….
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Aside from ‘The Last Samurai’ (which I watched for the sake of other, better actors), I haven’t donated a penny to a Cruise effort since the first MI piece of crap…not in theatre tickets, dvd purchases or rental fees. If we stop supporting his garbage and stop pointing our cameras and microphones in his direction, maybe he’ll shut the hell up and take his BS elsewhere?
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Those film executives who feel like there is an “avid audience for Cruise in this role”, they wouldn’t happen to be Scientologists would they?
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