Put yourself in Tom Cruise's tiny shoes for a moment. The moviegoing public has vocally fallen out of love with you for your weird relationship with Katie Holmes, so what's the last thing that you should go and do?
You're right – the last thing that Tom Cruise should ever think about doing to rescue his movie career is make a film with Katie Holmes, since a Tom Cruise/ Katie Holmes movie would inevitably make Gigli look like Casablanca. So guess what Tom Cruise is reported to be working on? Right again – a movie that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes can star in together. Do you want to tell him, or should we?
Tom Cruise has made a lot of things with Katie Holmes; like baby Suri Cruise, some pictures of baby Suri Cruise and a delicious placenta that flopped out with baby Suri Cruise, mainly. But since he's been with Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise's movie career has also slipped up a bit with him getting the boot from Paramount and whatnot. Luckily, though, Tom Cruise knows how to make his big comeback – a David Beckham biopic! No, wait, that's a shit idea – we meant a movie that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes can star in together!
In the past, Tom Cruise has said that he wants to star in a movie with Katie Holmes, but we didn't really think he meant it – after all, Tom Cruise says a lot of stuff he probably doesn't mean, like when he said he wanted 10 babies out of Katie Holmes or when he yelled "I'm the craziest man in the world," while standing on top of a car in Japan, although we're partially inclined to believe that last one. But the Katie Holmes/ Tom Cruise movie rumour has just come back in full force, with The Guardian reporting:
According to Life and Style Weekly magazine, the couple (dubbed "TomKat" by celebrity magazines) are keen to demonstrate their chemistry onscreen – hopefully, there won't be any need for the Oprah-style, on-sofa antics that Cruise indulged in, which became a factor in his being dropped by Paramount studios in August. A source told the magazine that the couple are looking for a project that would allow both of them to display their actorly credentials – Cruise is apparently hoping to shed his action man, Mission: Impossible persona, while Holmes is keen to lose her girl next door image, gained from years of playing TV sweetheart Joey in Dawson's Creek.
The source also reveals that Tom Cruise is on the lookout for a script so good that people will go and see it even though it's got Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes in it:
"He's devoting himself to putting together a project that will not only make Katie a bona fide star, but will put him back in the good graces of the movie-going public."
It'd better be a good film, because Katie Holmes hardly looks as if she wants to get married to Tom Cruise let alone star in Days Of Thunder 2: The Adventures Of Cole Trickle And His Uncomfortable-Looking Daughter.
Read more:
Eyes Wide Open: Cruise And Holmes Seek Onscreen Chemistry – Guardian
[story by Stuart Heritage]