Does Cruise really have a cameo or not?
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I hear he has a cameo as God, looking for a starship.
So, Tom Cruise does cameos? 
The cameos in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, were cool (for the old farts among us who know who all those people were). I mean, come on: Buster Keaton, Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante, Jerry Lewis, Carl Reiner, Don Knotts, The Three Stooges, and others. Now them's cameos.
Tom Cruise walking across the screen in Star Trek? Meh, either way.
The cameos in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, were cool (for the old farts among us who know who all those people were). I mean, come on: Buster Keaton, Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante, Jerry Lewis, Carl Reiner, Don Knotts, The Three Stooges, and others. Now them's cameos.
Tom Cruise walking across the screen in Star Trek? Meh, either way.
I don't care one way or the other - he's done cameos before without even being noticed (try spotting him in Young Guns)
He did visit the set, but I suspect the cameos will be more like members of the TV casts or something - like Ethan Phillips in First Contact
He did visit the set, but I suspect the cameos will be more like members of the TV casts or something - like Ethan Phillips in First Contact
Perhaps it could be like Christain Slater's cameo in Star Trek VI. An alien Starfleet admiral mabey? An Andorian would be cool. Pike gets a transmission from a Starfleet Admiral, the screen turn on, and it's someone you recognize, but not quite sure who he is. That's when you hear whispers in the audience, 'hey, that's Tom Cruise!'
For my money, it would be nice to have some high profile cameos in the movie and not just some random starfleet admiral. There is opportunity to advance the storyline and also contribute to continuity and please the fans.
Of course, to which continuity does the cameo contribute, and to whose storyline does the cameo advance, is another topic.
Of course, to which continuity does the cameo contribute, and to whose storyline does the cameo advance, is another topic.
Cameos are meaningless, really... remember, a cameo is what Mick Fleetwood got during S1 of TNG. Of course, he was under massive bug-eyed fish-guy makeup... which must've been humiliating! Could have been played by a resusci-Annie!
I wouldn't want Cruise (or any other "big name" actor) in a major role in the movie, but I wouldn't mind seeing him in the background someplace... except that, if you're in the theater when that happens, you won't be able to hear the next few moment's worth of dialog!
Ditto!
It's possible that Cruise could be so buried in alien prosthetics that no one would recognize him at all. Doing a cameo for kicks doesn't mean that he'll actually be seen.
I'm guessing Cruise will be in it because Abrams likes to re-use a stable of actors, and Cruise could use the boost from Abrams' (perhaps short-lived) successes right now. Maybe he'll be the officer that Kirk has to impress for the Kobyashi Maru -- and we get the sense, a la Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, that this incarnation of our young hero was inspired by an encounter with a similar, cocky figure from his early days. I say "this incarnation of . . . " because the TV Kirk was shown to be thoughtful, not cocky, in the earliest episodes, a "stack of books with legs" who was "positively grim" while at the academy, not a high-octane high-school-wrestler type.
Put this in the freakin' bank: if Cruise is in the film, he will play Gary Mitchell.
You heard it here first. Learn it, love it, live it. Gives Cruise an opportunity to return as the character before he got killed by the Shat in WNMHGB.
Cruise will play Spock's long lost Uncle Xenu. Watch out for them Thetans..
Bald too?
I would never stoop to quoting someone just to boost my post count!
Just like I'd never quote this...
But, yeah, RedShirt Cruise is the only way I'd wanna see him.
I think seeing Tom Cruise would pull you out of the movie
