By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday May 20, 2011 @ 1:41pm PDT Tags: Adam Shankman , Barry Levine , Guillermo

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday May 20, 2011 @ 1:41pm PDT Tags: Adam Shankman , Barry Levine , Guillermo Del Toro , Joseph Kosinski , Karl Gajdusek , Malin Akerman , Oblivion , Rock of Ages , Tom Cruise , Universal Pictures , William Monahan
EXCLUSIVE : Tom Cruise has committed to star for Universal Pictures in Oblivion , the science fiction film that will be directed by Joseph Kosinski, who last helmed Tron: Legacy . Production will begin in October. Cruise had been loosely attached to the Radical Publishing graphic novel adaptation when Disney let it go and Universal committed to finance and distribute the $100 million film, which came with a William Monahan script that was being rewritten by Karl Gajdusek. Kosinski hatched the idea for the project and set it to be published by Barry Levine s graphic novel imprint as a calling card for a movie when Kosinski was busy for so long directing Tron: Legacy, which topped out at $400 million worldwide gross.
Disney acquired the graphic novel in a heated auction last summer, and Universal was one of the studios that also chased it. It takes place in an apocalyptic future where most of the population lives in clouds above an earth surface that has been rendered uninhabitable. Cruise will play a soldier who s stuck alone on the planet, repairing the drones that patrol and destroy a savage alien life form. He encounters rental cars in oahu hawaii a beautiful woman who crashes in a craft, rental cars in oahu hawaii and their experience together forces him to question his world view. Disney allowed Kosinski to shop it because it didn t fit its family-film mold and attempts to rein it in to a PG rating was creatively strangling the project. It will be PG-13.
Cruise has just begun shooting the Adam Shankman-directed Rock of Ages , the adaptation of the Broadway musical for New Line. Cruise plays the decadent rocker Stacee Jaxx, and gets to belt out the Bon Jovi hit Wanted Dead or Alive and duet with Malin Akerman on the Foreigner hit I Want to Know What Love Is . Cruise will follow with Oblivion . Less clear is what happens after that. Cruise had been mentioned as circling Pacific Rim , the Legendary Pictures-hatched monster movie that will be directed by Guillermo del Toro. Del Toro expected to be working with Cruise at Universal this year on At the Mountains of Madness , but the studio put the brakes on that adaptation of the HP Lovecraft horror tale because the film has its R-rating. While del Toro and Cruise could wind up making Pacific Rim at year s end, the actor s participation in that one isn t certain, though they are talking. CAA-repped Cruise s next film is Mission: rental cars in oahu hawaii Impossible Ghost Protocol , the Brad Bird-directed fourth installment of the Paramount Pictures series that opens Dec. 16. Cruise is also in the center of a script pitch by Crazy, Stupid, Love scribe Dan Fogelman that sold to Warner Bros last month in a bidding battle. Cruise will play a politician whose pristine reputation is shattered when he gets caught having an affair. With his reputation in tatters, rental cars in oahu hawaii the pol retreats to his hometown to lick his wounds, repair rental cars in oahu hawaii relationships and confront his past. Talk about a timely premise.
the reason i question kosinski is because how could he let michael sheen prance around like a complete dill weed in tron and keep that shit in the movie. not to mention that awful cgi work on jeff bridges. since gollum looked good in lotr everyone seems to think that human cgi looks good (see robert zemeckis). when one of your main characters is cgi the movie will not work (exception lotr and avatar).
It s hard to say at this point how talented Joe Kosinski is, but I think it s safe to assume that Disney played a pretty strong role in making TRON suck. Disney rental cars in oahu hawaii isn t a particularly easy place for a young director/artist to thrive, so I d hold off on judging Kosinski until we actually see what he s capable of.
Original premise? Never heard of Neon Genesis Evangelion? rental cars in oahu hawaii Pacific Rim is basically a live-action version of a handful of different anime properties, including the one I just mentioned that James Cameron had been trying to get off the ground for years.
I have to disagree with you about both of them. Knight and Day was a fun movie and the action was directed very crisply. By the same token, I found Valkyrie to be very dramatic and tense, a very interesting film. Why Singer s film gets so much hate is beyond me. I thought the device he used to take the movie from German to English was also kind of nifty.
Couldn t agree with you more. Unfortunately, the studio will go ithe usual course casting someone twenty to thirty years his junior, right? rental cars in oahu hawaii I mean, Tom IS a grown man of almost 50 years of age. Love his work. Cast an equal for Tom, please and thanks.
Right on, Daniel! Cruise and Pfeiffer would be a dynamic team with combustible chemistry (something that has virtually disappeared from today s lousy movies). But Michelle committed the unpardonable Hollywood sin of passing 50, and though she looks more ravishing than ever (with no need for ridiculous cosmetic surgery), when do you last remember seeing her star in a major-studio movie? If the dream-team of Cruise Pfeiffer ever happens, it would have to be in a modestly-budgeted independent production (which I, for one, think would be a terrific idea). It s high-time Cruise rental cars in oahu hawaii showed the world what an underrated, first-rate rental cars in oahu hawaii actor he is it was Cruise who was the heart and soul of Rain Man and Cruise, not Hoffman (in a one-note performance, should have won the Best Actor Oscar.
The animated ASTRO BOY also used almost that exact same premise, with the city in the sky and the junk filled planet s surface rental cars in oahu hawaii below. rental cars in oahu hawaii Nothing new here as far as the basic premise goes but Kosinski has a way of creating breath taking visuals. So I d still be interested in seeing what he comes up with.
Well that s unfortunate. There are a few actors out there that are so fundamentally weird in real life that it is impossible to suspend disbelief while you watch them. Years ago, Cruise became one of those actors and his box office rental cars in oahu hawaii results show it.
Yeah, he came out with some wild things in the past, so? You re so absorbed by how the media sensationalised and capitalised on these faults, that you won t even see his movies rental cars in oahu hawaii despite being a sci-fi fan.
You are spot on. Cruise s ship has sailed he ll never get it back. We will see these new efforts just define him as a has-been more than ever. It s a shame. He s become desperate at being relevant. Cruise out the door, Tom. It s over.
Interesting film project. It will be a challenge to deliver this film with significant emotional power, being it so abstract and otherworld like. The film, Collateral, with Tom Cruise, had some good emotional parts, especially the jazz scene.
Let s get f***ing real Kosinski gets a shot ONLY because his movie grossed that much money worldwide. If he s so talented as a DIRECTOR, then why did TRON lack any directorial effort? The movie was a pile of dung. The guy should have stayed in commercials.
Cruise rarely has chemistry with leading rental cars in oahu hawaii ladies. He s kinda asexual. And he has a few too many Sci-Fi films on his resume. I never thought I d see the day when a Cruise project sounded meh, but here it is. Colin Farrel would be better.
rental cars in oahu hawaii He encounters a beautiful woman who crashes in a craft, and their experience together forces him to question his world view. In other words, it s yet another take on the Generic Tom Cruise Role: Egotistic Jerk Learns To Be Human. See also: Rain Man, A Few Good Men, The Last Samurai, Mission Impossible, Vanilla Sky
I don t care what Tom is in..I will be there. I do not care if he worships rocks, climbs rental cars in oahu hawaii trees..I am a Tom Cruise Fan and I think you haters are just boring people Tom is an entertainer not a God..he entertains me thats enough.