30 years later, Tom Cruise finds Brad Pitt with a huge director?

After Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise may join the cast of Quentin Tarantino’s latest film The Movie Critic. According to Insider Jeff Snyder via The InSneider , the Top Gun star is currently in discussions for a role in the feature film. Now everything would depend on his busy schedule, which he would rearrange for a ‘small role’ or a ‘cameo’ in this film. The actor will spend most of the year shooting Mission: Impossible 8.

Brad PittIn turn, will be part of the adventure, thus reuniting with Tarantino for his third collaboration with Inglourious Basterds and Once Upon a Time In Hollywood – the latter of which won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. .

We still don’t know if his role will be main or secondary. At the time, rumors pointed to Paul Walter Hauser (The Richard Jewell Case, Cobra Kai) playing Jim Sheldon, the film critic of the title. If Tom Cruise If he really had to act in the movie, it means his reunion Brad Pitt30 years later Interview with the Vampire (1994) – and this, despite their enmity on the set…

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Pete and Cruise are not the best friends in the world

This is Brad Pitt The one who talked about it in the past himself: his relationship Tom Cruise It was somewhat tense on the setinterview with a Vampire– a shoot that actually made him so unhappy that he considered leaving the project before learning that his departure would cost the production $40 million.

Speaking to Premiere magazine in 1995, he spoke in more detail about his relationship. Tom Cruise :”You have to understand, Tom and I are… we’re going in different directions. It is the North Pole. I’m from the south. He comes to shake hands with you where I could have bumped into you.“

Brad Pitt He attributed this tension to an unspoken rivalry between the two stars: “I always thought there was this competition that got in the way of any real conversation. It wasn’t mean at all, not at all. But it was just there and bothered me a bit.“

However, he ended up praising his co-star’s talent and while they weren’t the best of friends, there were clearly no hard feelings between them. What’s more, they were set to meet again in 2019 for James Mangold’s Le Mans 66, a second collaboration that was slated to happen before financial problems prevented that meeting. They even participated in reading the script together. In the end, it was Matt Damon and Christian Bale who portrayed the heroes of the film. film critic So there may be an opportunity Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise Finally, to meet again and this time without enmity: it would be a summit meeting…

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What do we know about the film critic?

Although details about the film are scarce, we do know that it will be set in Los Angeles in 1977 and will be based on Jim Sheldon, a sly and irreverent critic who works for the porn magazine The Popstar Pages. The character would be “a guy who really lived but who was never really famous”, whom Tarantino called “the Travis Bickle of film criticism”, referring to the Taxi Driver character played by Robert De Niro in 1976.

Note that the Jim Sheldon name was used by Tarantino himself when writing for the New Beverly movie site, the theater he now owns in Los Angeles.

Other information was also published by Paul Schroeder (screenwriter Taxi driver (exactly) in an interview with Le Monde in December 2023.

“Quentin will insert clips from 1970s films and also film his own versions of films from that era. He asked me for permission to shoot the ending of John Flynn’s Legitimate Violence (1977) as I had written in the original script before it was completely rewritten and waterproofed.“- he revealed.

As for the rumors, we can mention that Tarantino wanted to offer the last role to Bruce Willis, who was forced to end his career for health reasons, or his desire to reform the cult duo of Pulp Fiction, John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson – A rumor that Jeff Sneider mentioned last September.

Still, the buzz about this legendary director’s tenth and final feature film should continue before and after its release. This is one of the most anticipated projects of the moment, although no release date has been announced. Its shooting may begin in a few months.

While you wait to find out more, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood can be re-watched on Netflix.