It's Official: Tom Cruise Making Les Grossman Film

By PopEater Staff

After stealing every scene he shot in 'Tropic Thunder' and then bringing the house down at Sunday night's MTV Movie Awards, Tom Cruise will be reprising his character Les Grossman for a full-length feature film, EW reports.

Paramount and MTV films announced this afternoon they are developing a movie based on Grossman. Cruise will star and produce alongside 'Tropic Thunder' co-star and director Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld of Red Hour Films. Michael Bacall has been tapped to write the screenplay.

Keeping with the comedic tone of the planned film, both Stiller and Paramount released statements regarding Grossman.

Stiller's said, "Les Grossman's life story is an inspiring tale of the human class struggle to achieve greatness against all odds. He has assured me he plans to quote 'F**king kill the s**t out of this movie and make Citizen f**king Kane look like a piece of crap home movie by the time we are done.' I am honored to be working with him."

Paramount Film Group president, Adam Goodman, also played along, saying, "Everything I learned in this business, I've learned from Les. I started out as his assistant, and from the first day he threw his desk at me when I got his lunch order wrong, I have loved him like a father."