Why Tom Cruise wanted to star in the biggest bomb in cinema history: “He still had interest”
Talk about dodging a bullet.
Cutting Room Floor Archives: 03/2025
The forgotten director Quentin Tarantino calls “one of the greatest storytellers in the history of cinema”
“Right up there with Howard Hawks.”
“His arch-enemy number one”: did Frank Sinatra threaten to have Marlon Brando killed?
Yes, according to some people.
The role Steve McQueen wanted to delete from history: “I don’t want to talk about that movie”
He refused to talk about it.
The moment James Cameron was convinced he’d derailed his entire career: “We’re fucked”
Cameron thought it was all over at this point.
The Werner Herzog scene so revolting that it needed to be rewritten: “The crew doubled over with nausea”
Herzog himself was immune.
The role Robert De Niro refused to play for Martin Scorsese: “I just didn’t want to do it”
The character wasn’t his type.
The movies that shaped Zoe Saldaña’s career: “I fell completely in love”
The Oscar winner was moulded by one genre in particular.