Tom Cruise Is ‘Very Serious’ About Making a Les Grossman Movie

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/christopher-mcquarrie-tom-cruise-les-grossman-movie-1236410254/

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  2. Everything revealed in Hollywood since Tropic Thunder has really showed that Grossman wasn’t an exaggeration, is barely a parody, is just pointedly portraying how these foul men act.

    Reading about how producers like Scott Rudin abused their way through meetings sounds just like Les; not to get started on all the sexual predators

    I would find it difficult to fine the character funny in a post workplace harassment exposed culture, post Me Too.

    Something like The Studio portrays the madness of filmmaking with a better tone for this time 

  3. Honestly, I’d watch a solid 2 hour film as him dressed in character dancing with 0 regrets. He doesn’t even have to say anything. 

  4. While I love the character IDK if he could work as a whole movie.

    This guy is a caricature, a parody, an archetype. This sort of character does not benefit from an arc, they do best when held up as a funhouse mirror to the “sane” world, which is why he was so hilarious in Tropic Thunder.

    At best they should do another movie with Les Grossman as a recurring side character.

  7. Les Grossman was funny in small doses. An entire movie of that guy would be fucking obnoxious.

  10. A buddy comedy with McConaughey & Bill Hader as the main three please

  12. This portrayal made me think Cruise is of course a movie star but he is capable of being a very good actor, or at the least doing far more than he does.

  16. Dennis Quad in The Substance seemed like an accurate portrayal of the Lex Grossman-type character

  18. If anyone has a problem with it, they can take a step back and literary

    FUCK THEIR OWN FACE!

  19. Dude that shit was hilarious.. listening to Ben Stiller describe his “process” for finding his character may have been even funnier.

  21. Les heavily invests in Water Fest 2 expecting a big payout since the first was a disaster. Turns out the whole thing was a scam and his daughter gets caught on the now lawless island. Brad Pitt is in it as one of Les’ hired guns and plays the twin from his character that got killed in Lost City

  22. how about a universe crossover les grossman and ari gold fight for an up and comer young actor 

  24. I still say that Tropic Thunder and Team America should both make sequels and do a double feature.

  26. I’d also want Robert Downey Jr. co-staring as Kirk Lazarus.

  27. This movie would go to heaven… because I’d watch the hell out of it.

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