If you never saw Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder , his hilarious, off-the-wall antics at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday served as your introduction to Les Grossman. Now the cutthroat movie producer is getting his own film. In a press release, Paramount Pictures and MTV Films announced that the development of a comedy focused on the foul-mouthed Grossman was in the works. Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfield are producing the project . The press release from MTV phrases the movie’s development as if Cruise’s character, with Les himself announcing the new film in typically humble fashion: “To quote my great friend Kirk Lazarus, ‘I don’t read the script, the script reads me.’” Tom Cruise/Les Grossman is ready to spank the competition . Stiller, one of Cruise’s Grossman’s Tropic Thunder co-stars, says “He has assured me he plans to, quote, ‘F—ing kill the sh– out of this movie and make “Citizen f—ing Kane” look like a piece-of-crap home movie by the time we are done.’” That pretty much sums it up right there. Paramount President Adam Goodman added: “Everything I learned in this business, I’ve learned from Les. I started out as his assistant, and from the first day he threw his desk at me when I got his lunch order wrong, I have loved him like a father.” Like Get Him to the Greek , in which Russell Brand reprises his Forgetting Sarah Marshall character Aldous Snow in a starring role, this sounds like a potential hit. At the very least, it’ll help Cruise’s image a bit. His popularity has dipped as more people view him as kind of a crazy individual, but he’s still a talented, fun guy.
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Tom Cruise to Star in Les Grossman Movie
