Spike Lee has labored with numerous big-name actors, together with Denzel Washington, Edward Norton, and Josh Brolin. On the other hand, there used to be some extent within the 2000s the place it seemed like Lee used to be poised to snag his biggest-name main guy but. In 2006, it seemed that Tom Cruise used to be eyeballing a mystery named “Promoting Time,” which might were directed through Lee, as one in all his subsequent initiatives. “Promoting Time” would’ve been a high-concept challenge for twentieth Century Fox relating to a man (to be performed through Cruise) who makes an attempt to adjust a specifically terrible day in his previous through promoting portions of his existence. Tackling this manufacturing would have persevered Cruise’s habitual forays into sci-fi territories and his penchant for running with well-known auteurs, as observed through his collaborations with Brian De Palma, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Stanley Kubrick.
In spite of becoming snugly into Cruise’s profession, “Promoting Time” disappeared from the inside track. Of the main roles Cruise used to be having a look at in 2006, the one one he ever starred in used to be “Lions for Lambs.” After that, Cruise’s time table were given crammed up with initiatives like “Valkyrie” and “Knight and Day.” As for Lee, he additionally saved busy and shifted gears from “Promoting Time” to “Miracle at St. Anna.” A Cruise and Lee collaboration would have compatibility proper in with the whole profession trajectories of each artists, however circa 2006, it kind of feels neither of them discovered the time to flip that prospect right into a truth. It looked like director D.J. Caruso used to be going to select up the movie in 2014 with Will Smith because the lead, however that by no means got here to fruition, both.
