Tom Cruise to star in a believable love story. No, really.
By Burbanked on Feb 1, 2006 in Celebrities, Development Heck, Gossip, Movies, Screenwriting, TV | 1,188 views |
Far be it from us to deny Tom Cruise future film work, but having heard via FilmStew.com (among others), that Paramount has snapped up a love story pitch for Cruise to star in, we’re left with more questions than answers.
Primarily this: are we prepared to find Cruise believable in a love story again? You know, the made-up kind?
According to reports, the pitch - written by Serendipity scribe Mark Klein - is being hailed as an “original and very moving love story”. Well, we’re all for breaking out the hankies, but it would be hard to classify any of Cruise’s work since Jerry Maguire with the words “love story”. And that was 10 years ago.
The fact is, it’s become very difficult to accept Hollywood actors and actresses purely in the context of the roles they play instead of identifying them with the minutia of their private lives that we devour daily via the Interbloid.
For example, isn’t it a bit too tongue-in-cheek to cast Britney Spears as a “Christian conservative”?
And by the time Brad Pitt goes gay for a film role (via Defamer), will we have unlearned all that we know about his heteroinfidelity and offspring-making prowess?
We’re probably making too much out of this. Cruise will continue to find diverse and complex film roles no matter whose couch he decides to jump upon. But it’s hardly coincidental that this year’s Oscar nominations for acting have favored the so-called “rookies” who buckled down and attended to their jobs instead of their PR machines.
My blog-love affair with cartoonist Doug Savage’s terrific daily Savage Chickens (
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because clearly Cage has decided to become action/thriller cinema’s first Polish great-grandma. (
Well, that’s too bad. Back a year or so ago when I heard that they’d be making a movie out of Judi and Ron Barrett’s terrific kids’ book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, I hoped maybe it’d be made live-action. Handled well, the idea of seeing an actual town where it rained hotdogs and baked beans in an open-roof restaurant, as well as the bit where sanitation trucks clean up all the leftover rain/snow/food and feed it to the pets would be, I thought, a bundle of CG-imbued cinema fun. 
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