Post by Anim8tr on Jan 16, 2007 13:41:26 GMT
jeffwaynefan said:
anim8tr said:
Just my thoughts, but perhaps Paramount kept this movie on such a tight leash both money and timewise, because they already knew they'd be cutting a certain actors contract? 
And given his antics at the time the movie would be an even harder sale?Were that say the case, than is it impossible to believe a company like ILM just might not get that extra $40 mil. for an extra 7-8 minutes of truely mind blowing visuals? And by doing so the director and good buddy don't profit by proxy?
And that's 7-8 minutes of tripods, jets exploding, cities burned, soldiers stomped, and landmarks destroyed. True Ryan Church and Doug Chiang stuff. I'd sure loved to have seen more of it.
Still, a helluva job by ILM and a decent action movie considering what they were given.
I thought the main bulk of Cruise's antics leading him to be booted out from Paramount came after the film was released.
I concede, HC, you might be right. But between April of 05 and the films June 29th release that year, Cruise's behavior had already struck a few nerves methinks.
) so why can't he just keep on doing his thing? There are worse things an actor can do, take Mel Gibson for instance.