So last night, I discovered from one of my favorite blogs, Celebitchy, that Tom Cruise is being heavily considered for the lead role to Starlet Bey Bey's lead in the re-re-re-re-re-re-re-remake of A Star Is Born, because you know, nothing in Hollywood is sacred or original anymore.
EXCLUSIVE: Tom Cruise is talking to Clint Eastwood about joining Beyonce in A Star Is Born, the Warner Bros remake. This comes after Cruise morphed into an Axl Rose-like 80s rock icon in Rock of Ages, so he'd be able to handle the singing part of that comes with playing an over the hill musician who helps launch the star of an ingenue he falls in love with and who watches him slide while her star soars. We have no idea if Cruise will say yes, or if the schedules will mesh since he's just beginning shooting on the Joseph Kosinski-directed Oblivion, followed by the Doug Liman-directed All You Need Is Kill Are for Warner Bros. The film has drawn theinterest of top talent, but it has taken a long time. Some of that had to do with Beyonce's pregnancy, but she's ready to shoot as soon as June. The studio at various times has discussed everyone from Will Smith to Christian Bale, Eminem and Russell Crowe, and the addition of Eastwood makes the whole thing more attractive. Deadline revealed that Cruise might take on Rock of Ages at an early stage, so who knows?
[From Deadline]
So rumor has it that Warner Bros is attempting to aggressively court Tom for the role, and Variety points out that it's a positive sign that Tom "didn't immediately reject" all talk of his participation in the male starring role. Should he choose to accept this mission (har har), this would be the first time for Tom to pair up with Clint Eastwood.
However, Tom is a very (inexplicably) busy man at this point, and if I had to take a guess, I'd say that scheduling matters will muck up the Cruise casting. After all, Beyonce is apparently chomping at the bit to get back to work, and Clint probably wants to get the hell out of his house while his wife films the Reality Show of End Times. Speaking of which, maybe all of that reality television nonsense has been messing with Clint's mind and chipping away at his cool factor even before the showhas aired. How else would one explain Clint's decision to remake A Star is Born? With or without the involvement of the Unhinged Lift Wearing Midget, this project is just all around bad news.
I was pretty much like, "Whoa!" but a few people thought they could see this happening because Tom Cruise is only good at acting crazy and arrogant and doesn't do well with "vulnerability" as one Celebitchy comment said. I took that to mean they felt Tommy Boy's acting was just as meaningless and one note as Clown B and so they deserved each other as co-stars.
I disagree with this. Yes, Tom is cray cray and since jumping the couch literally almost eight years ago, he's lost a lot of steam with his fans. The fact that he belongs to a creepy cult and everyone pretty much believe he's hanging in the closet with fellow cult friends, John Travolta and possibly Will Smith, has messed with his cred a bit. But I definitely think Tom is a great actor and he still looks pretty hot for his age, so why he would choose to be in a movie with one of the worst singers-cum-actresses in the history of Hollyweird, is beyond me.
From a studio perspective, it would make since to get a seasoned vet whom can still be-in spite of his crazy personal issues-be called a big name and has nice little track record of being on film in an interracial paring (even I thought he and Thandie Newton rocked the hell out of MI2!). And he can probably shoulder the responsibility of carrying the film from crappy to just bad since we know Bey Bey is not going to move lacefronts outside of her stans.
But like Kaiser of CB said, scheduling could mess this up because Starlet Bey Bey can't stay out of the limelight and raise her child the way people of leisure do. Nope, she's got to get back on the horse since she sees her popularity shrinking like Spanxxx on HI for 40 minutes. Tom has a lot of projects goings on and they may have to wait for him.
Just be prepared-if this all comes to fruition-to hear the antidote of how this all came to be as Clown tells everyone in an interview that she chartered a spaceship to meet at the Scientology headquarters on Planet Zenu to meet with Tom personally so she could broker the deal that would get him the role in HER film. It's coming so…
Stay tuned!
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Tags: Beyonce, Rumors, Tom Cruise
