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Tom Cruise Passes EDWIN A. SALT to Phillip Noyce!
Beaks here...
Kurt Wimmer's EDWIN A. SALT is a smart, taut action script about a CIA operative forced on the lam when he's wrongly accused of being a Russian sleeper agent. As comeback vehicles go, it's an ideal piece of material for Tom Cruise - something he must understand since he's stuck with the project after losing two talented directors (Terry George and Peter Berg).
Despite these difficulties, EDWIN A. SALT is apparently back on track, with Phillip Noyce attached to direct. While I admire George and Berg, Noyce has a much more proven track record with this genre: PATRIOT GAMES is solid enough, CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER remains the best of the post-RED OCTOBER Clancy adaptations, and THE QUIET AMERICAN is a fantastic adaptation of Graham Greene's angry take on early CIA involvement in Vietnam. Why they didn't offer him the film in the first place, I've no idea.
Actually, while this is just breaking in the trades, Noyce has been on board for a month or two now (if not longer). I know there have been table reads with some potential cast members, but I'm pretty sure they've yet to make any firm offers. Currently, the film is set up at Columbia Pictures with Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Sunil Perkash producing. Potential SAG strike notwithstanding, a start date should be announced soon.
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Throw in some juggs and Gun Kata and we have a winner. Now the count down to Cruise bashing begins in 3...2...1...
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Hasn't this "wrongly accused good guy gotta clear my name" plot line has been done before in such movies as Mission Impossible and Minority Report with Tom Cruise.
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I don't care if it's been done 100 times before, there is no way this won't be entertaining. Cruise is always excellent in these roles and minority report is up there with the matrix as the best sci-fi action of the last ten years. Yes, even better than pluto nash.
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rocks.
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hope so...in fact, i hope this fucking nutjob scientologist's entire career is dead...if it werent for the fact that he was a rich movie star, he would be selling flowers on sunset blvd, trying to earn enuf caishe to take more sessions to finally achieve clear...thank god snyder didnt cast him as ozy...fucker wouldve ruined watchmen...anyway, he doesnt need to appear in a superhero movie, the fucker thinks he is one...notice how he has put out all the fires in cali singlehandedly...i hear he is flying over to pakistan and will personally be picking up osama
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That movie is unspeakably horrible in every sense of the word. Harrison Ford truly began his "bumbling, sickly fuck" period with that movie.
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Was really good. It's like Bourne with brains. (Sorry, I think that whole trilogy is way overrated, at least story-wise.) Beaks used the word taut and that's certainly appropriate. i thought it'd make a great cruise vehicle, especially if they get a solid supporting cast.
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And Tom Cruise is an awesome actor. He's gotta play more bad ass roles like Vincent in Collateral.
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Having a baby in mysterious circumstances? Being a bit odd on tv? It can't be getting dumped from his deal, because he's already come back from that - hence this and valkyrie. And mi:3 didn't bomb that bad did it?
The man has the best track record in hollywood, certainly better than brad pitt, will smith or george clooney. -
Having a baby in mysterious circumstances? Being a bit odd on tv? It can't be getting dumped from his deal, because he's already come back from that - hence this and valkyrie. And mi:3 didn't bomb that bad did it?
The man has the best track record in hollywood, certainly better than brad pitt, will smith or george clooney. -
OK, first off - Clear and Present Danger is an outstanding thriller. While Patriot Games lost its way in a tired third act, Noyce just cranked up the tension to deliver one of the most satisfying thrillers from the early 90s.
BUT more importantly, don't forget that Noyce has already delivered his masterpiece - Rutger Hauer and Terry O'Quinn vs Sho Kosugi, Randall Tex Cobb and Noble Willingham in Blind Fury!
Fuck me, that bird who played Evil-Lyn really does have some fucked up spaffy eyes! -
His face screams at me from the ad beside this talkback. Cruise is becoming a cinematic black hole. I bet Brian Singer is just sitting there quietly in meetings with Cruise thinking "oh dear God, I wish I had cast Ralph Fiennes instead"...
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Will there be a scene where Cruise runs from stuff that's exploding and falling over, like in so many of his films? War Of The World's lost me at that particular sequence...
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career in films...he has just announced that after meet dave, he is done with making movies and will return to standup...you may all now cry
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You really made Cruise look so good by using his name and Pluto Nash in the same post.
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just seems so fucking weird that it might be one of those 'awesome' movies.
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If Russia had sleeper agents they have all been awakened years ago.
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Seriously.
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No, i'm not kidding. Of course it's vaguely intelligent so I can appreciate why some people might not like it.
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Can you kill what's already dead? Let's see if "Meet Dave" can succeed in that act...
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Great score and a rousing confrontation with the President at the end, but on the whole it's a very lackluster and curiously uninvolving affair, with sleepy performances and oddly paced action sequences.
Blind Fury is the shit, though. -
Please get rid of that creepy ad.
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This is the crap I have to wake up to? Where is the G.I. Joe Trailer already?
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When all the big stars have become monsters who can't open a film (except maybe Will Smith). Are we entering the age of the character actor?
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didnt the cult freak make this in 95? ummmm it was called mission impossible.
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Trout, why does smith get a pass? He's a scientologist too.
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and not so patiently.
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Plus he can give the impression of being a down to earth person, Whether it's true or not...Give him a few more years though. I might say it's not like we can expect Philip Seymour Hoffman in more leading roles. It just seems like Movie Stars are more disposable these days. Perhaps it's because of the internet's influence. I didn't realise so many male actors wore wigs for instance...till I saw the pictures...
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the Clancy adaptations. The Sum of All Fears is actually one of the better ones. As good as Patriot Games if not better. But none are comparable to the Hunt for Red October, a truly excellent film. I wish McTiernan would make one last great film.
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Granted, that's probably many, many more than I'm aware of, but I won't see any movies involving any known Scientologists. Fuckers.
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who the fuck cares what people believe in.and if we are scrutinizing religion here(which is as relevant as politics on a site like this, which is not relevant at all), Christianity is just as fucked as Scientology as Hinduism as Paganism as Whateverism you can name.yeah, Tom Cruise is a wacko, true enough. no argument there. but i think its interesting how many people get all mock aggressive over Scientology. who the fuck cares.
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with a viggie crisper full of Thetans.
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that give meaning to people's lives but ultimately its just all a bunch of gobbledegook. Scientology may be more systematic in making money from its followers but in the grand scheme of things its not much worse than the world's other "great religions" - A great scene that puts it into perspective is when Charles Heston is running from his captors in Planet of the Apes and passes by a church whose followers are praying to some monkey god. Fantastic stuff.
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...someone else falls down...or crashes a car (or any other internal combustion powered vehicle)...or gets drunk and stabs someone. NOYCE!! Ideally it should be drawn out in the middle....."nooooooyyyce!"
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i'm glad i don't live there.
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He never really left. I still look forward to his movies,
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are not. Red October was never as thrilling as it thought it was (U-571 was the only sub flick that I've found entertaining), and as Doc Pazuzu said above, Clear and Present Danger had poor pacing -- the RPG city ambush was well-edited, but didn't seem to fit in that generally sluggish movie. Patriot Games had great casting, from Sean Bean, Sam Jackson, and Richard Harris, all the way to Thora Birch, who gave one of the most natural child performances I can remember. The pub scene confrontation, the war room satellite kill squad sequence -- shown in a stroke of directorial genius from the infrared satellite's POV -- and the freeway hit on the wife and daughter, were all brilliant.
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That is a great scene. Thanks for reminding me. I ordered that stupid monkey head Ultimate Planet of the Apes set yesterday when it was 67% off and I was kicking myself in the ass for being such a geek. I had vowed never to buy the set with that stupid packaging, but just thinking about that scene has alleviated some of the shame.
Cheers.
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...I think I mentioned just the other day that the end of that movie had tears dripping off the end of my goddam nose. Not sure why it hit me like that...should watch it again...
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staring tom cruise. hope it's good!
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Didn't know the Cruiser needed resurecting although that Valkyri thing's been missing in action for a while nowProbably went back and redubbed all the actors with german accents after Singer realised what a great cast of talented actors he had who were more than capable of German accents and what a knobhe'd been for thinking it wouldn't pull you out of the movie everytime one of them uttered something with their normal vocals!
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is sooo much better than Cruise's. i don't hate the dude, i'm looking forward to Valkyrie, but he does seem a bit silly.and anyone who drops Nicole Kidman has to be questioned.
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Kurt directing?
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I dig Noyce, especially after seeing "Rabbit-Proof Fence." Damn that was a powerful movie. Noyce did a great job with the actors in that film.
I'm interested in "Edwin A. Salt" because of Kurt Wimmer's screenplay and Phillip Noyce taking the director's chair. Hopefully Noyce can get Tom Cruise to embrace a less over-the-top performance, and rein in the subtler moments of the film. He seems like a director capable of such a thing.
This project could actually be really good. -
he played the "wrongfully accused" more often than anyone: Minority Report, The Firm, Mission: Impossible (twice!), Vanilla Sky, South Park^^... Time to try something fresh, for once.
Unless there is a cryptic, underlying message in his insistance to play that kind of part... Your guess is as good as mine. -
Jewish suburban kid? Cruise is a pretty damn hardcore Wasp.
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Jul 01, 2008 11:02:30 AM CDT
TroutMaskReplicant - not really. more like death of the movie st
by messi
thanks to tabloid magazines. most of the people in there make movies no one cares about, can't act, make music people hate or are reality tv stars. in my opinion this is a good thing. movies are now made by merit and being good movies, not like before where it was purely star vehicles and the movie was second. It's done wonders for the superhero genre. but sometimes it backfires. 10 years ago Assassination of Jesse James would have been one of the hits of the decade, now it only made 4 million. Plus it's killed the mediocre pedestrian movie, they are either great or shitty in general. I mean films like A few Good Men which was directed very pedestrian like(cinematography etc) would die a horrible death at the box office today. Now studios try to make films somewhat good and inventive.
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The suburban rocket launcher attack scene is one of the most intense realistic action scenes there are in movies, and Harrison Ford was definitely delivering the goods in the performance. That movie flows so well and is the perfect example of a CIA movie. Sorry for all you folks that were looking for an action packed no-brainer. For me it goes Red October, Patriot Games, CAPD, then SOFAF
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he can open a movie, most of the movies he opened were going to open regardless of who was in them, Hancock, I Am Legend etc.
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Clooney literally plays himself in every fucking movie, even the ones people call his best Syriana, Goodnight and Goodluck, Michael Clayton don't hold a candle to Tom Cruise in motherfucking Magnolia and Born on the Fourth of July. Cruise in Magnolia destroys the combined work of Clooney. Pitt yeah he's better, ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES! Fight club, babel, 12 monkeys. yeah. but Cruise>Clooney.
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what happened to the cruise/washington movie phillip noyce was doing? has that been 100% scrapped?
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That should also have been the one line Halliwell's review - it's a train wreck of a movie. As for Tom Cruise, who's apparently "okay cause he never said anything against the US government"?!? He's a loon, and as for the US government? Ditto.
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Cruise reprises his career making role. Now Governor of a major State, Joel had all the normal mid-life crisis fantasies...cars, girls, money. Then he heads to Washington D.C. for a week, and all his fantasies came true.
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Damn you to punjabi hell, asshole!
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were scientology truly just some wacky religion, i would agree with you...it isnt...it is a money making scheme dreamed up by a failed scifi writer...a money making scheme that has killed people and destroyed families...it should not have the status of a religion, and it doesnt in places like germany
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if killing people and destroying families isn't a requirement for religion, i don't know what is.
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to that list, too.
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I hope Cruise sees things in right and wrong; not in black and white.
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was more or less inspired by the real life roof-top attack on a US army helicopter, more accurately reportrayed in the movie Blackhawk Down.
But have to agree, aside from the obvious improbabilities of a vehicle that took a rocket to the radiator being able to reverse its way through a 12 foot solid wood garage door, its a great sequence. It works on all levels right up until that stupid slowmotiong "NoOOooOOOooo" moment where Harrison Ford tries to make it look like he's really scared, but his eyes look about as glazed over as a ragdoll's. -
I am done wasting my money on movies that star Tom Cruise. If he has any control of the movie, it will suck. If he has a cameo in a movie, I will watch it, but that's it. I will no longer help to fund Scientology.
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And by fridge I mean some bear-ish gay guy with a giant cock. Tom Cruise being a raging closet queen.
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made a sequel to Forrest Gump or Chariots of Fire, Cruise is a shoe-in. Cruise running from something is a mandatory scene in every one of his movies. If it's not explosions, like someone else mentioned, it's his emotions - think The Firm, Jerry Macguire, etc....
That said, he's a loon, but I like his movies. I wish people would just stop creating a market for the gibberish hollywood celebs spew on their own time. Cruise actually pisses me off less than Clooney. If people actually bought the crap that Clooney sells, it'd cost me money! What the hell do I care about religion? It's all the same to me anyway... -
octagonproplex, LMAO! I'm having chest pains!
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nowadays, for anything besides being a creepy, crazy, however wealthy and influential, has-been cultist?
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You're now to film what Michael Jackson is to music. Undeniably talented, but a scary nutter who drives audiences away.
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... you can hang an entire movie off one scene? Because the SUV in the alleyway sequence wasn't completely awful, that makes it all okay? The film was maudlin, overlong and self indulgent. And the performances were poor!
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My friend told me that i can find him on "wealthybeauty.c o m". Has anyone find him yet on that site?
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