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28Jun2008

Will Smith and Tom Cruise to Team Up On-Screen?

DateSaturday, June 28, 2008 at 12:12AM
There have been a ton of rumors about Tom Cruise somehow or other converting Will Smith into a Scientologist. Frankly, who cares? If it doesn't make his movies suck, it's not terribly relevant. It is undeniable, though, that the two are very good friends, and the subject of a Cruise-Smith screen team has come up.

Instead of talking about Hancock when he sat down with MTV, Smith revealed that while the right project hasn't come along yet, he and Cruise are always on the lookout for a great project on which they could work together.

"We've been looking at it. There's a couple possibilities," admits Smith. "We're keeping it top secret, but we're sniffing around a couple things that I think would just be ridiculous."

Of course, Will Smith is the biggest box office draw in the world over the past few years, and if you go back a few years before that, Cruise would be a serious contender for that title. In fact, over the past 25 years, he's been worth billions of dollars worldwide, and while he's not nearly the box office draw he used to be, a joint effort between the two titans ought to be very, very profitable.

Jokes Smith of the profitability possibilities, "You know, a couple of eastern European countries, it might have some success."

So what should that project look like? I say Tom Cruise plays a villain, just like he did in Collateral, the best thing he's done in a long, long time, which also means audiences who think he's gone off his rocker don't have to root for him. That's why Will Smith's around. And I'd also like to suggest Michael Mann have a hand in it; he's close with both actors, directed Smith in Ali and is a producer on Hancock, and of course, directed Cruise in Collateral.

I'd actually be interested to see them work against each other in a film under the right circumstances, so why not make sure that you have the right circumstances?

AuthorColin Boyd | | in , , | Print ArticlePrint Article | | Comment1 Comment |

Reader Comments (1)

I think you are right. We should just stick with the value of the movie and the talents of its actors and leave their personal lives out of the equation. I want to enjoy a movie. I don't need to know what the actors are doing in their personal lives to love or hate a movie. Both Tom and Will are tremendously talented and I enjoy most of their movies. Sometimes I want action and sometimes, I like it when the movie makes me think. I have seen both actors in both these kinds of film.

Saturday, June 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterM. Jones

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