Tom Cruise would like to work again with authors like Tarantino or Paul Thomas Anderson

There’s more to life than Mission: Impossible and Top Gun.

Last week, the blogger Jeff Sneifer started the crazy rumor. It relates to Tom Cruise and the possibility that he will join the cast of the next film of Quentin Tarantino, The Movie Critic. The cast is not complete at the moment, and it would be a question of the daredevil actor getting a “minor” role, since he is very busy with the next one Impossible missionaccording to The Playlist.

Variety revives the rumor, in an article which expresses the star’s desire to reconnect with the great authors, as when he filmed with Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick or Steven Spielberg. The pitch of The Movie Criticannounced as Tarantino’s final film, revolves around a film critic working for a pornographic magazine in the late 1970s. For the moment, the rumor pointed to Paul Walter Hauser (The Richard Jewell Case, Cobra Kai) for the role of Jim Sheldon, the main character. It was then announced that Brad Pitt would be there. If Tom Cruise manages to join the project, his participation would mark the reunion with Brad Pitt30 years later Interview with a Vampire (1994). Brad Pitt confided his impressions to the magazine First in 1995 :

“You have to understand, Tom and I are… we’re walking in different directions. He’s the North Pole. I’m the South. He comes to you with a handshake, where I could bump into you. (…) I always thought there was this underlying competition that got in the way of any real conversation. It wasn’t mean at all, not at all. But it was just there, and it bothered me a little.”

In addition to casting uncertainties, the film Quentin Tarantino still does not have a distributor. All the studios plan to bid to win the bid and Warner, with whom Cruise has just signed a big contract, and who is in the running according to the article from Variety, might not have the end of the story. Sony Pictures could do well, since it is the studio that distributed Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (available on FirstMax), which ended its run at the box office with a worldwide gross of $377.6 million – the second highest-grossing project of the career of Quentin Tarantino.

At 61 years old, Tom Cruise remains a big action star, but at what cost? In his investigation, Variety explains that the actor would like to reconnect with Paul Thomas Andersonwith whom he had already collaborated for Magnoliafor a performance that will be remembered.

“Cruise wants more than the fame that action cinema offers him – he would like to return to work with the likes of Paul Thomas Anderson. In fact, he hasn’t been nominated for an Oscar for any of his roles since he appeared in Anderson’s drama, Magnolia, in 1999. Earlier in his career, Cruise may have been directed by heavyweights like Spielberg, Scorsese and Kubrick, but then he transitioned into a phase Impossible mission where he regularly defies the laws of time and gravity.“

The Movie Critic should be released in theaters in 2025.

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