Tom Cruise Is Reportedly "Very Serious" About Making a Les Grossman Film
Director Christopher McQuarrie shared his conversations with Cruise about reviving the ‘Tropic Thunder’ character.
Summary
- Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning director Christopher McQuarrie shared on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast that Tom Cruise is serious about making a Les Grossman film
- Les Grossman was his character on Tropic Thunder, a mouthy producer with a temper
- The two have had real discussions about bringing the character to life once again in its own film
Tropic Thunder fans might just be in for a treat. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning director Christopher McQuarrie shared that Tom Cruise is seriously thinking about doing a film on his character Les Grossman.
Speaking on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, the director shared that Cruise and himself have had real discussions regarding making a standalone Les Grossman movie. McQuarrie said, “The conversations we’ve had about Les Grossman are so f**king funny. [Cruise and I are] talking about it, we’re having very serious conversations about it, and how best to do it. It ultimately comes down to what that character is.”
Les Grossman fans may remember him as the mouthy, antagonistic producer who had quite the temper and infamous for his giant hands. McQuarrie also shared that thinking about the Les Grossman film allowed himself and Cruise to escape the filming of the Final Reckoning, “We don’t even think about the structure, we play with scenes. Just to be sitting at a breakfast table, not talking about the movie we’re making for a minute, is such decompression. And just riffing with Tom playing Les Grossman at the table, it was one of the real joys of making this movie. It was all the stuff we were doing, planning the future while slugging out the present.”
It remains to be seen if this film will come true.
