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They want or wanted Cruise and Travolta


Not sure if it's still on, but they want or wanted Tom Cruise and John Travolta for a remake of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I wonder who they wanted to play who. I always wanted to see the two of them make a movie together, but not to sure about this one.

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Yikes, what a hideously bad idea. I am not a fan of Cruise AT ALL. I like Travolta in certain roles (A Civil Action and Primary Colors), but he certainly would be badly miscast in Butch Cassidy.

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Then the movie would turn into "Brokeback Mountain."

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I don't see either of those actors as being successful in a western.

Cruise perhaps, but not Travolta

And certainly not this movie.

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It's such a hideous idea, it could happen. Hollywood recycles the same 8 or so favored actors for BIG movies. Cruise could probably pull it off; his acting chops are proven and considerable. Travolta? Can't see him convincingly in a western at all. At all.

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Yikes! What a terrible pairing for a remake, which is also a bad idea. I like both of the actors, just not for a remake of this. Perhaps it was going to be funded by Scientology so they wanted their two most famous members in a movie together?

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 Whom might 'they' be, pray tell?




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I shudder to think about those two as BCSK. An Italian Butch and a a a oh no.

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Dreadful idea
They’re both way too old anyway

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