FFS, cruise wouldnt know horror if it burst its way out of his chest and ran across the dining room table

For calling it the "Horror Movie to End ALL Horror Movies" that right there just doomed this movie to pure failure. You can't boast your own movie that much until it hsa final cut and ready to show in theaters. Not even fully casted yet? Fuck that lady. However, Cruise can act, and he knows film. Just because he believes in lifeforces powering our bodies from UFO's lightyears away doesn't mean the guy can get on screen and throw down. If anyone is the realy asshole it's Mary Parent.

I have zero against Cruise personally, but to hear he's going to be in a horror film, much less "the horror film to end all horror films"... Im still processing this

My brain crashed

Interesting news. But Drew Goddard didn´t direct "Cloverfield, he just wrote it. Matt Reeves was the director.

I love Buffy and all but Joss Whedon's ego is way to high.

Yeah, you guys really need a copy editor. Like the typos aren't bad enough. Drew Gooddard, WRITER of Cloverfield. Also to everyone else, this says nothing about Tom Cruise being in the movie. He's the exec at UA, plain and simple.

disanti, i agree w/ you %1000. i've liked Whedon's work but to be SO boastful is asking for your movie to fail or be targeted (remember when Oasis said they were bigger than THE BEATLES? hmmm). i REALLY do not like Cruise, though. if he WAS to be in this, i (most likely) wouldn't want to go near the movie, Whedon or not. if this is just a case of Whedon having Cruise co-produce or something, then fine.

I would never doubt Cruise. He has some wacky beliefs, but he most certainly is one of our best actors, like it or not. He's proven it time and time again. Until he fails, I'll never say he can't do it.

Yipee, we might get to see Tom Cruise ruin yet another genre with his wooden acting and ego. I can't count how many films I feel that he has ruined with his stiff, overacting, including his latest, Valkyre.

Eeech Tom Cruise....... he was funny in tropic thunder tho..

Wow, the amount of misinformation in this thread is staggering. Let's start with the incorrect info from SCI FI Wire itself, which no one who picks up their item seems to fact check: UA has not taken over MGM. MGM is the majority stakeholder in UA. Continuing: The only reason Whedon met with Cruise is because Mary Parent, head of MGM, moved the film from MGM proper to UA in order to take advantage of UA's pool of money to make movies. MGM itself has more movies on its slate than money to make them. Cruise heads up UA, and so in essence this was just Whedon meeting his new boss. Pre-production and staffing up on Cabin was well under way before this meeting ever happened. Cruise is not in the film. And the "horror movie to end all horror movies, literally" line with which Whedon first announced the project, if you're at all familiar with how Whedon works, inevitably means something very specific, and what it most definitely does NOT mean is that he's saying all other horror movies have been, and will forever be, crap compared to his. Carry on.

Can't wait for this. With Joss, it will be great no matter what.

Its a Joss project! I am in!

The Cabin in the Woods is such an awesome title, so hopefully the movie will be equally as awesome.

Man, it's just like Heath being cast as the Joker in the Dark Knight: Nobody liked the idea at first, but when they actually saw his take, everyone raved (Well, except those few who want to stand out and act like it wasn't all that. Keep telling yourself that.) Effing fan boys. What, do you need Tom to die to look forward this? It's awesome when actors go beyond their element. Tom's bad/wooden acting? Once again, keep telling yourself that. Can't wait. Though I do agree that it the idea of it being the horror movie to end all horror movies seems a little far fetched.

Well, Jason Can Kill Me... Heath wasn't a steaming pile of cow dung.

As an actor, or a person? Because as a person, he is pretty weird, but that shouldn't be coinciding with his talent as an actor, which is a lot more then other actors can grasp. By the way, nice avatar.

Joss Whedon just put me into a hyperbole induced coma. He should change the name of the film to "Our Sweet Lord's Personal Greatest Horror Film Ever" I am still interested in this none the less.

I agree, Heath wasn't a steaming pile of cow dung but he is a smoldering pile of dead!!

What the hell would the movie be about?? The fact that Tom Cruise would be in this movie, I don't think so!! Not unless he was killed. Then I would watch that!!

hey tom ended up being one of the best parts of tropic thunder, if he can actually pull off a comedic role that well whos to say he can't do horror

Tom Cruise is at the top of my hate list, I can't stand him he is SO intense and those crazy eyes. Meanwhile all that big ass talk "horror movie to end all horror" I hope he can deliver, I feel he did with Buffy but he really hasn't accomplished much since. Serenity was cool.

One true b!X: You don't bring your silly logic in here y'all! We were having a nice little bitch fest here, damn it! But seriously, Whedon and Goddard are brilliant writers so I am highly looking forward to this.

You guys are investing way too much into that quote from Whedon which is really suprising me. If you knew him or his work at all, then you would know better than to take it too seriously. Joss is awesome and he makes awesome things...give the guy a break and let him clown around with his movie descriptions a bit. People take things so serious around here!

Oh yeah, and another thing...Tom Cruise is a producer for United Artists. Nothing ANYWHERE suggests that he is starring in the movie! Producers and writers/directors meet all the time to get this shit off the ground and the cameras rolling.

even though i am against what he beleives but everyone is entitled to there own opinion/beliefs i agree with othe rpeople ya he can act. i still like him in the mi movies, jerry maguire, days of thunder to name a few so it would be cool to see him in another horror mvie. (war of the worlds is the other one that he stared in).

It won't be that great, it can't be whedon doesn't have the chops for it, hip overdone teen crap sure, serious real bone chilling horror no....

Cruise is in charge of United Artists. It was in that capacity that he was talking to Whedon. Says so in the damn article "Whedon...met with Cruise as head of United Artists now that UA has taken over the MGM film."

Tom Cruise??! Interesting!!! Is Tom going to be the killer, he is a nutjob, no?

Dude Tom Cruise is kick ass, it would be so cool if he's in a horror movie. Hope he'll take the part.

This was the last tiem it was referenced. http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/14875 Goddard said it in an interview.