I think just moving when Top Gun’s writer/producer and star/producer have to go on a press junket.
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Or… an extremely long press campaign. Maybe Cruise will teach every journalist to fly a jet?
I know, I’m on a roll today.
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Apparently it is being shown on Monday night in the UK.
As to MI:8 Production, yes the ‘time’ has certainly been freed up so, without further knowledge, will production once again commence as per? I believe currently MI:7 is continuing, and will be concluded at Pinewood.
Interesting take on part III:
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I get why they think that…it’s a slight misunderstanding in what Cruise was going for with the series. McQuarrie and Abrams stuck around because they understood what Cruise was aiming for, Abrams understand so has backed it, McQuarrie felt he could change in of himself as writer and director to keep that…he was right.
So, if anything, Cruise has been on a long learning curve to get producers who
A) Understood what he was aiming for
B) knew how to do that
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I agree. The learning curve also was happening over a long period of time during which lots of things changed - within the world and within Hollywood, and certainly in Cruise´s career.
But he really managed to rescue his franchise by playing to his strengths and carving out the elements which really give it distinction.
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In the 80s and 90s I used to dismiss Cruise as merely one more Hollywood face. But if I look at his many varying roles now, often undercutting his own ‘pretty boy’ image - or deliberately going over the top with it as in his vampire role - playing the action hero and the smarmy character, the activist, the patriot poster boy and the historical figure, then I see an awfully dedicated actor whose passion really goes into his work.
There’s good reason to be critical of Cruise’s affiliation - though he never seems to throw it at us - but there’s little doubt he’s one of the hardest working professionals in the business and would really only just work harder if his talents included writing or directing. To think that this guy turns 60 soon…
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Interview With A Vampire was the film that made me have faith in him as an actor, it was my favourite film for quite a while, but it was Collateral until he made use of that again - His invincible nature is the threat!
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I enjoyed Risky Business as an introduction to Cruise – though I was more focused on a certain co-star at the time – but I dismissed him for a long time as a lightweight and yes, a pretty boy whose movies for me seemed to follow a predictable formula: arrogant jerk does a spectacular crash and burn and comes out the other side as better person. That for me summed up films as disparate as Top Gun, Rain Main and Jerry McGuire. General dismissiveness gave way to active dislike with the first Mission: Impossible, which went out of its way to crap on the legacy of a great TV show and turn an ensemble concept into a vanity vehicle for one guy.
Around the time of M:I 4, I suddenly realized that for all my pooh-poohing the guy, I had in fact enjoyed a lot of the films he was in, so I decided to cut him some slack. By now, he’s one of the last actors sill working whose mere involvement in a project is enough to at least get me to take a look.
I’m not a fan of his “affiliation,” but I long ago realized that if I didn’t develop the ability to separate a performer’s personal life from their work, I’d never enjoy another TV show, film or album again. There are performers I appreciate for the entertainment they provide me, but very few – if any – I admire for any personal qualities off screen. That decision to divorce art from artist is working for me, though it’s hard for many.
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Great shot.
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Shame.
Not terribly surprising. Even with the vaccinations moving forward, they don’t necessarily keep people from becoming carriers of the virus. If they’re regularly testing for the virus, then it was bound to happen at some point. Here’s hoping that whoever on the set contracted it is symptom free and feeling well and they’re able to get things up and running again in due time.
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The usual bubbles created for movie productions only work when people stick to it. I bet some team members enjoyed their downtime disregarding safety precautions. Cruise was so right raging against that behavior.
Of course, these days reason gets attacked. Now, two weeks of stopping production will add immensely to the budget.
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Just so.
The thing is, if you vaccinate 50, 60, 70 percent of adults that’s fabulous. We imagine something like this
turning into this
But that’s not how society works. Society is arranged along categories like gender, profession - and to a huge extent age. So what’s actually happening is that we take part of the pic from the equation, but the possibilities for the virus to spread are largely intact, just in a smaller part of the population.
Like this
The problem now is that a huge part of society that is set to celebrate this ‘Freedom Day’ thingy the press is gushing about on 21. June is not yet immune. And that’s the group setting out to get to beaches and into restaurants, bars, clubs this summer. While there is indication in the data that the Delta variant is possibly an escape mutation.
Difficult.
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McQuarrie interviewing Cruise for the first films 25th anniversary
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Where’s the rest of the interview? On the anniversary Blu-ray?
They’ve released bits and pieces of it here and there. The whole interview is apparently like an hour and a half, but it hasn’t been released in full.
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I need the rest of it.
Buy the blu ray?
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I don’t think it’s on the new Blu-ray. I’ve looked at the extras and they’re the same as previous releases.