Tom Crusie In Star Trek???

[Jon1701]

Tom Cruise is a major movie star, whether we like it or not. He's gone off the boil somewhat in recent years, but he's still massive around the world. Lump him in the same category as Matt Damon, George Clooney, Brad Pitt etc. Hoffman and Nicholson are from a different era.

Whether we think the guy can act is incidental. He is huge.

I'm not adverse to a cameo, as long as he isn't jumping up and down screaming on the bridge chairs...

 

[MrPointy]

A Cruise cameo would be pretty cool.

Preferably as Xenu, Lord of the Galactic Federation. Or an Andorian. Either or.

 

[Roshi]

Who's Tom Crusie?

 

[alchemist]

Trekkies are a funny bunch. They hate a guy that is supposedly even bigger than all the Trek celebrities combined, and would bring in the general audience to see this movie. But they have to hate him just because he is a big movie star.

Sir, with all due respect, did you see MI:III?

Sir, with all due respect, did you see Two for the Money, The Bucket List, and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer? Those being relatively recent films featuring Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, and Dustin Hoffman respectively, the gentlemen you cite as major movie stars.

I did see those movies and was amazed at their performances!!!

Well, I guess if there is going to be a brave new Trek, then our generation is going to have the hardest time living with it.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

I quite enjoy cruises movies, plus i have no interest what he does off screen, but if the part adds to the success of this Trek movie then I'm all for it.

 

[Kieran]

Seeing Cruise in Trek 11 would be just one more reason for me NOT to see it in a theater.

The little man simply cannot act... combine this with an already questionable script leads me to see this film on HBO, when its "free".

 

[Michael]

... combine this with an already questionable script ...

Can you point me to where I can read it too, please?

 

[DanTheGrey]

I think the question is ultimately is the movie any good. If not, is something like a Cruise cameo just a way of throwing something shiny the audience's way in hoping that they'll forgive some other quality issues. If it is good a lot can be forgiven.

I just hope that they aren't banking on his "star power" since his star has really plummeted, especially amoung women in the last few years as he became more...outspoken and erratic.

 

[starburst]

Paramount dropped him for his behaviour last couple of years, do you really think they would green light him being in a production that they seem to be putting alot of money into and that his presence even in a small way could turn away the average person on the street.

 

[Patrickivan]

Cruise () won't bring in anything- he's ruined his career himself...

As far as cameo's and big names go. We should be realistic, Star Trek will never be a huge draw for the general public unless the whole thing is cast with big known actors.

Look at ST VI. Slater had a cameo. It added absolutely nothing to the film. Plummer, is a big name and played a big role, and again, it's not like it was a blockbuster film (despite being one of the best Trek films).

Back to Cruise (), I have no problem saying he is a pin head because of scientology(). If the CoS () wasn't so agressive towards all the "SP"s
(everyone who is not a scientologist), then I wouldn't care so much.

 

[Woulfe]

Tom Crusie plays Ensign Xenu, a plucky fresh faced Red Shirt who trips over an exploding rock in the first 5 mins of the movie.

IN SUPER SLOW MOTION !

C a p t a i n t h e r e ' s s o m e t h i n g o v e r h e r e

~ K A B L O O Y ! ~

Cruise bits everywhere.

- W -
* I'd pay good money to see that, like oh $10.00 just for the ticket *

 

[Patrickivan]

Actually, the main bad guy would BE Xenu if Cruise had a say- though they couldn't use that name both for trademark infringement (which is a fking joke), and because they aren't allowed to acknowledge the existence of Xenu... But that's just me being an SP I guess.

 

[pookha]

... combine this with an already questionable script ...

Can you point me to where I can read it too, please?

yeah were can we read it.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

I think he'd be good for the box office, even if it's only a cameo. And I do think he's a decent actor. At least he draws attention to himself, which, in the movie business, is always a good thing.

 

[M'Sharak]

... combine this with an already questionable script ...

Can you point me to where I can read it too, please?

yeah were can we read it.

Perhaps Kieran is thinking of this questionable script.

 

[Outpost4]

This would be OK only if his character is called Maverick and we get a lot of Kenny Loggins music.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I wouldn't mind seeing Cruise do a cameo in the film. I don't see how having a major movie star there could hurt! If anything it adds to the excitement if Hollywood enjoys the film!

Major movie star? I wouldn't go that far, but he was good in War of the Worlds.

Can we do the opposite? Is a major movie star, but not good in War of the Worlds? I really like him in A Few Good Men, though.

Tom Cruise could be interesting in the movie, although I hope his role isn't too distracting (if he was an alien, it might be better).

 

[CommanderRaytas]

Really? I liked him in War of the Worlds. I read the book years before the movie came out and I knew it would be different, but I honestly think the film caught the original story's vibe. And Tom Cruise was quite good in my opinion. I'm really looking forward to seeing him as Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. He does look the part.

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

This would be OK only if his character is called Maverick and we get a lot of Kenny Loggins music.

Revvin' up your warp engine
Listen to her howlin' roar (even though there's no sound in space)
Metal under tension (especially if it was built on Earth instead of space)
Beggin' you to touch and go
Highway to the Neutral Zone
Ride into the Neutral Zone
Headin' into twilight
Spreadin' out her wings (and vectoring nacelles) tonight
She got you jumpin' off the [star] track
And shovin' into overdrive
Highway to the Neutral Zone
I'll take you
Right into the Neutral Zone
You'll never say hello to you
Until you get it on the red shirt overload
You'll never know what you can do
Until you get it up as high as you can go
Out along the edges
Always where I burn to be
The further on the edge (of the galaxy)
The hotter the intensity
Highway to the Neutral Zone
Gonna take you
Right into the Neutral Zone
Highway to the Neutral Zone

 

[starburst]

Cruise ()
Look at ST VI. Slater had a cameo. It added absolutely nothing to the film.

That wasnt much of a cameo as it was more about him wanting to be in a Star Trek film and his mother was the films casting director who managed to get him in. That bit of the film was meant to be Rand.