Tom Cruise really wants an Oscar.
Cruise has made gazillions from “Mission Impossible” movies, “Top Gun Maverick,” and recent hits like “American Made” and “Edge of Tomorrow.’
But the closest he’s ever gotten to the Oscars was with “Jerry Maguire” and “Magnolia.”
Now 62, Tom knows his window is starting to close, and that skydiving from thousands of feet won’t do the trick, and that repelling is just repellent.
So he’s going to make a movie with Oscar winning director Alejandro G. Iñà rritu, the man who made “Birdman,” “The Revenant,” and “Babel.”
This is what Leonardo DiCaprio did when making half a dozen Martin Scorsese movies didn’t work. We forget that Leo’s Oscar was for “The Revenant,” which sent him so overboard that there’s a bear out there still calling his name.
Iñà rritu, who has four Oscars, will bring along his “Birdman” screenwriters and an all star cast including Sandra Hüller, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons, Sophie Wilde, and Oscar winner Riz Ahmed.
In the still untitled film, Cruise will play the most powerful man in the world. Now he wants to be humanity’s savior, even though he caused the problem that could destroy everything.
Just the sound of that plays right into Cruise’s Scientology-based philosophy that he can do anything and is a kind of Superman. Cruise thinks that as an “Operating Thetan” at the highest level, he has superior mental and physical powers far beyond our understanding.
These ideas came from late science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, who managed to turn his cuckoo ideas into a huge moneymaker.
Will this all work out? Warner Bros. hopes so. They snatched Cruise away from Paramount so he could get a gold statue in his hand. Unfortunately, Cruise will be competing with himself in 2026 as that’s when the long delayed “Mission Impossible 7” will hit theaters in June. But this one will come during Oscar season, in late fall, and then we’ll see how it all plays out.
