So, we’ve
looked at one Cruise/Spielberg collaboration, so let’s took a look at another
with Minority Report
Based (and I
know this will shock you) loosely on a book of the same name written by Phillip
K Dick, this was originally conceived to be a sequel of the sort to another
adaptation of his works, total recall, and I mean the original one with
Shwarznegger, not the reboot. They looked at the story again in 1997 with
Novelist John Cohen chosen to help screenwrite it. However for whatever reasons
the original director, Jan de Bont dropped out of directing, instead serving as
a producer to the series (neither Cruise nor Spielberg are credited as
producers on this one) Cruise passed the script onto Spielberg who agreed to
direct after several rewrites. He’d been hoping to work with Cuise for some
time.
The movie
had a $102m budget, and grossed $358.4m, a moderate success for 2002, but it
gained massive critical acclaim for its ideas and themes. So, we’re 13 years on
now, does the movie still hold up under modern grounds? Let’s take a look.
