32: Knight And Day

Episode 32 of the The Last Star In Hollywood podcast, hosted by Next Word, titled "32: Knight And Day" was published on June 6, 2024 and runs 82 minutes.

June 6, 2024 ·82m · The Last Star In Hollywood

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Summary

This week, Cruise and Cameron are reunited in a chaotic, excessive, and surprisingly fun action-comedy, James Mangold’s Knight And Day. How many writers is too many? Is this an example of perfect casting? Can real-life beauty compensate for 2010-quality CGI? Content warning: gun violence, peril, drugs, sexual assault Unanswered Questions: Is there an edit which can make more sense of this film? Could Knight And Day have launched a franchise? What would be a better title? Further reading: Salt The Tourist James Mangold (Wikipedia) Gambit (1966) Gambit (2012) Inside Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard’s Brooklyn Home (Architectural Digest) Inside Vanessa Hudgens’s Enchanting L.A. Home (Architectural Digest) Imagine (Gal Gadot and friends) The Last Star In Hollywood Definitive List Of Tom Cruise Films The Last Star In Hollywood: Production Schedule Thanks for listening! For bonus shows, extra content and more, support The Last Star In Hollywood and the Next Word network by visiting Patreon.com/NextWord! Join us next week for a return to form — or at least a return to the well — for the M:I franchise: Brad Bird’s Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol! The Last Star In Hollywood is a Next Word production.Copyright © 2024 The Last Star In Hollywood. All Rights Reserved. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Episode Description

This week, Cruise and Cameron are reunited in a chaotic, excessive, and surprisingly fun action-comedy, James Mangold’s Knight And Day. How many writers is too many? Is this an example of perfect casting? Can real-life beauty compensate for 2010-quality CGI?

Content warning: gun violence, peril, drugs, sexual assault

Unanswered Questions:

Is there an edit which can make more sense of this film?
Could Knight And Day have launched a franchise?
What would be a better title?

Further reading:

Thanks for listening! For bonus shows, extra content and more, support The Last Star In Hollywood and the Next Word network by visiting Patreon.com/NextWord!

Join us next week for a return to form — or at least a return to the well — for the M:I franchise: Brad Bird’s Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol!

The Last Star In Hollywood is a Next Word production.

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★