C’est tout chaud, vous l’avez rêvé Paramount Pictures l’a fait ! Nous venons d’apprendre en effet que Paramount produira un Spin-Off de Tonnerre Sous Les Tropiques –je ne sais pas si je peux vraiment utiliser ce terme- basé sur le personnage emblématique interprété par Tom Cruise, Les Grossman, mon idole (cf. remarque de Pierre) !
Les Grossman
Paramount Pictures et MTV Films produiront tous les deux le film, l’annonce tombe suite au MTV Awards où Tom Cruise en Les Grossman a fait le show et pas n’importe lequel il était tout simplement énorme. C’est, Michael Bacall, le scénariste de Scott Pilgrim vs. The World qui s’occupera du script

Voici l’annonce officielle (en anglais) :

Paramount Pictures and MTV Films announced today that they are set to develop a movie around mega-producer Les Grossman. The announcement comes on the heels of Grossman’s groundbreaking and visionary production of the soon-to-be Emmy® award-winning 2010 MTV Movie Awards Sunday night. Tom Cruise, along with Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld of Red Hour Films will produce and have secured the life rights to Grossman.

Grossman, best known as a mega producer, has most recently mentored talents such as Rob Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. In 2008, Grossman was introduced to the masses by Stiller in the comedy “Tropic Thunder” where the famed producer had a cameo playing himself.

Said Ben Stiller: “Les Grossman’s life story is an inspiring tale of the classic human struggle to achieve greatness against all odds. He has assured me he plans to quote, ‘F**king kill the sh*t out of this movie and make Citizen f**king Kane look like a piece of crap home movie by the time we are done.’ I am honored to be working with him.”

When asked what the screenplay was about Grossman responded: “To quote my great friend Kirk Lazarus, ‘I don’t read the script, the script reads me.’”Adam Goodman, Paramount Film Group President said, « 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. I am forever grateful to Ben and Stuart Cornfeld and their ability to secure his highly-coveted life rights, »Tom Cruise is said to be in talks to portray Grossman in the film.Michael Bacall (“Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”) will write the script.

Voici l’intro de Les Grossman lors des MTV Movie Awards, d’autres vidéos promos sont dispo ici

Intro – Les Grossman

MTV Movie Awards Présentation par Les Grossman