Tom Cruise leaves "U.N.C.L.E." for "Mission: Impossible 5"

[David]

http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/shocker-tom-cruise-exits-the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e/

SHOCKER: Tom Cruise Exits �Man From U.N.C.L.E.;� Warner Bros Recasting
For Fall Start
By MIKE FLEMING JR

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Cruise has exited as the lead in The Man From
U.N.C.L.E., the remake of the classic TV series that Guy Ritchie will
direct for Warner Bros. Cruise was scheduled to star in the film with
Armie Hammer, but he has stepped out of the picture to focus on
producing and starring in Mission: Impossible 5. Paramount and
Skydance are now planning to begin shooting the latest installment of
that franchise before year�s end. Warner Bros has a script they like,
and a top director who�s expecting to direct U.N.C.L.E. in the fall.
The timing proved too difficult and so Cruise stepped out to focus on
M:I5.

Warner Bros will now go hard looking for the lead of this movie, which
is inspired by the original TV series ran from 1964-68, with Robert
Vaughan and David McCallum playing Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin,
two agents of the United Network Command for Law Enforcement. With
gadgets and their wits and charm, they fought the evil forces of
Thrush. Hammer, who�ll be seen shortly alongside Johnny Depp in the
Gore Verbinski-directed The Lone Ranger, is still firmly in the film.

This is another temporary setback for a potential franchise that
Warner Bros has long been high on, going back to when the studio had
Steven Soderbergh ready to direct George Clooney in the lead. The
actor dropped out because he needed surgery on his neck and back, and
he wasn�t up for a physical role. After Soderbergh departed, the
studio turned the project over to Ritchie and his producing partner
Lionel Wigram, who is producing with John Davis. Hammer would play a
version of the role originated by McCallum.

While it might seem that Cruise could squeeze in the film before
moving to M:I5, that�s not the way he has worked on the Paramount
franchise. In the last film, Ghost Protocol, he was heavily involved
in planning and performing death defying stunts that included running
along the glass exterior of a skyscraper in Abu Dhabi, about 124
floors high. He�ll want to do something to top that, so while the
script is being written by Drew Pearce for Cruise�s Jack Reacher
helmer Christopher McQuarrie to direct, this is an accelerated process
and it will become the focus of the rest of the year for Cruise. The
actor remains on good terms with Warner Bros, recently completing the
Doug Liman-directed science fiction film All You Need Is Kill, which
will be released June 6, 2014.

[W/Q]

On 24 May, 18:42, David <dimla...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/shocker-tom-cruise-exits-the-man-from...

>
> SHOCKER: Tom Cruise Exits Man From U.N.C.L.E.; Warner Bros Recasting
> For Fall Start

Phew! That was close. There's still hope yet that they'll get the
right lead for it. At this point, almost anybody else would be better
than Cruise.

[Adam H. Kerman]

W/Q <i...@email.com> wrote:

>>http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/shocker-tom-cruise-exits-the-man-from...

>>SHOCKER: Tom Cruise Exits Man From U.N.C.L.E.; Warner Bros Recasting
>>For Fall Start

>Phew! That was close. There's still hope yet that they'll get the
>right lead for it. At this point, almost anybody else would be better
>than Cruise.

How about someone a lot younger, say in his early 30's as Robert Vaughn was?
David McCallum were?

Hah! Glancing at IMDb, Vaughn played Napoleon Solo and McCallum played
Illya Kuryakin in an episode of Please Don't Eat the Daisies "Say
UNCLE". How the hell do you cross promote those two series?

Good grief. They even got Stefanie Powers as April Dancer in still
another episode.

Had Ladadog the sheepdog eaten some important intelligence information? Twice?

[William December Starr]

In article <e4rvp851hj475dcjg...@4ax.com>,
David <diml...@yahoo.com> quoted:

> http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/shocker-tom-cruise-exits-the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e/

>
> EXCLUSIVE: Tom Cruise has exited as the lead in The Man From
> U.N.C.L.E., the remake of the classic TV series that Guy Ritchie
> will direct for Warner Bros.

Halfway there, then.

-- wds

[Michael Black]

On Fri, 24 May 2013, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

> W/Q <i...@email.com> wrote:
>
>>> http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/shocker-tom-cruise-exits-the-man-from...
>
>>> SHOCKER: Tom Cruise Exits Man From U.N.C.L.E.; Warner Bros Recasting
>>> For Fall Start
>
>> Phew! That was close. There's still hope yet that they'll get the
>> right lead for it. At this point, almost anybody else would be better
>> than Cruise.
>
> How about someone a lot younger, say in his early 30's as Robert Vaughn was?
> David McCallum were?
>
> Hah! Glancing at IMDb, Vaughn played Napoleon Solo and McCallum played
> Illya Kuryakin in an episode of Please Don't Eat the Daisies "Say
> UNCLE". How the hell do you cross promote those two series?
>

I don't know, but "The Glass Bottom Boat" starring Doris Day had her
workig i a secret lab, where Paul Lynde thinks she's a Russian spy.
Robert Vaughn apparently had a non-speaking role.

(And of course, Doris got mixed up in intrigue with Jimmy Stewart in "The
Man Who Knew Too Much". She sings "Que Sera Sera", which I thought was
used as the theme for her tv show.)

So is it a surprise that UNCLE thought she was a spy, causing a crossover?

Michael

[Adam H. Kerman]

Good points.

[anim8rFSK]

In article <knp6ip$26u$1...@panix2.panix.com>,

1/3. Hammer needs to go to, or at least play somebody else.

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