Watchmen: Zack Snyder refused Tom Cruise!

Tom Cruise Zack Snyder failed! The 300 director refused to hire the Top Gun star for his film, and it’s all out of loyalty.

Guest on Josh Horowitz’s podcast happy sad confused To promote the second part of Rebel Moon, the director went back to the fact that he was considering Tom Cruise in the film, but he, out of commitment to his other actor, who was much less well-known, finally said: “No. “:

Snyder retained his original cast

I wanted Tom Cruise to play Ozymandias. Tom wanted to play Rorschach, which he obviously could do perfectly. But hey, we already had Jack, and Jack is really amazing. But in retrospect, I would definitely consider hiring Tom if I didn’t already have Jack.

As a reminder, or if you haven’t seen the movie or read the comics, Ozymandias is the former Watchmen and movie antagonist, a Machiavellian intellectual being, and Rorschach is one of the main characters. Violent and tortured, he is the perfect anti-hero.

It’s interesting to note that Tom Cruise was willing to play a partially masked role, which is rare enough to highlight, as stars often don’t want to film their faces, and studios pay an actor a lot of money only to end up not being able to. don’t show

An element that would also pose a problem for filming Judge Dredd with Sylvester Stallone.

Rejected by Snyder, Cruise will leave on the same date to film Valkyrie and Thunderstorm in the Tropics. As for Watchmen, it will have mixed success in theaters, taking about $185 million worldwide – including 107.5 on American soil alone – against a budget estimate of 130-140 million.

It is with the video market that the film will truly be discovered by a wider audience, allowing it to achieve cult status. And without Tom Cruise!