In December of 2008, shortly after receiving a Golden Globe nomination for his turn as hirsute studio chief Les Grossman in "Tropic Thunder," Tom Cruise revealed that he and the film's writer/director/star Ben Stiller were kicking around ideas to do another project with the Grossman character.
"Ben and I are always talking about what we can do with Les," Cruise told MTV News at the time. "Do we do some viral video with Les?"
We haven't heard any movement on this possibility, so when we had a chance to speak with Stiller while he was promoting his upcoming indie, "Greenberg," we put the question to him. Anything shaking with the Grossman project?
"We're playing around with ideas for a Les Grossman something," Stiller said. "Maybe a movie, maybe some Internet stuff. I love that character and Tom, I think, is just insanely funny doing that guy. And I think he's game for it too."
Is this just idle talk from Stiller? Or have their ideas for Grossman morphed from a few Internet shorts to an actual theatrical spin-off? We'll remain cautiously optimistic and simply be happy knowing that Stiller and Cruise are still keeping alive the idea of resurrecting the classically pompous and foul-mouthed Grossman character a year and a half after "Tropic Thunder" opened.
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