Scientology Spaghetti Western -Travolta and Cruise Set To Remake Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
An Epic Fail On The Horizon?
According to the Sunday Express, L. Ron Hubbard worshipers Tom Cruise and John Travolta are mulling over the idea of starring together in the remake of the Paul Newman (sniff, we miss you!) and Robert Redford movie classic, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid.
Say it isn't so!
From the SE article:
"Cruise got the blessing of Paul Newman, who played Cassidy in the original opposite Robert Redford’s Sundance, just months before the film star succumbed to lung cancer last September, an associate revealed. He intends to produce the remake through United Artists, the “golden era” studio he jointly owns after helping resurrect it as an MGM subsidiary in 2006. Cruise, 46, wants to cast himself as Redford’s Sundance, a performance friends say ranks among his cinema favourites, while Travolta, 55, will follow in Newman’s footsteps as Cassidy. The iconic tale of two lovable Wild West bank robbers charmed a generation and garnered four Oscars. According to a senior executive, Cruise is already interviewing screenwriters capable of recapturing the essence of the original."“It has been a pet project of his that has been on the back-burner for years,” said the executive. “But now he’s ready to go, and will most likely happily eschew the enormous salary that he normally commands.
Butch and Sundance is a labour of love for Tom,” said a source close to the star. “He was eight years old when he saw the original and it made an impression that has stayed with him all his life. He can’t wait to get to work.” Pulp Fiction and Saturday Night Fever star Travolta is also said to be keen to start shooting, despite still mourning his 16-year-old son Jett, who died in the Bahamas in January. "
Woah! back up there...... Not even three months after Travolta's 16-year old son Jett dies, and he is "keen to start shooting"?
I am all for getting on with one's life, but this seems a bit soon for Travolta to take on such a light-hearted classic role of Butch Cassidy, and he would really have to "nail" Newman's part for it to be at all convincing. Keeping busy can certainly help someone to "push through the grief", as quoted by Travolta, but only a few months after his son died, we'll see if the public agrees.
And the idea of Cruise asking Paul Newman about doing a remake of this movie, just months before Paul's death really bothers me. Why did he wait so long? I hate to say it, but did Cruise wait until Newman was more vulnerable? Why didn't he, or will he ask Redford for permission?
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