Tim Burton was not sincere in ‘The Anthill’: Tom Cruise was about to star in ‘Eduardo Scissorhands’ and this is the surprising reason why he did not

the filmmaker Tim Burton passed by last night ‘The Anthill’ to promote the exhibition ‘Tim Burton the labyrinth’ that will open in Madrid this coming Friday, September 29. During his time on the Antena 3 program he commented on various things, but something that caught my attention was that he directly burst out laughing when Paul Motorcycles asked if Tom Cruise was about to star ‘Edward Scissorhands’Well, that’s exactly what happened.

Burton then commented that “I didn’t know that, it could have been anyone. The truth is that sometimes they read things to me and I think I’m in a parallel universe, but no, I always had Johnny Depp in mind“. What really happened when Burton got down to work with ‘Edward Scissorhands’? Well, it is true that he loved Depp, but hen Fox were convinced that Cruise was the ideal choice.

Why Tom Cruise Wasn’t in ‘Edward Scissorhands’

In fact, Cruise got to meet with the film’s team and the agreement for her to star in it ended up being subject to a series of doubts she had about the character. Caroline Thompsonscreenwriter of the film and who wanted to John Cusack for the role, I remembered in dazed the curious problem that arose when Cruise started asking too many questions:

Tom Cruise wanted to know how Eduardo went to the bathroom. He was asking all these questions about the character that can’t be asked. Part of the delicacy of the story was not answering questions like “How do you go to the bathroom? How did you live all these years without eating?” Tom Cruise wasn’t about to make the movie without those questions being answered.

In addition, it has also been commented that the protagonist of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ asked to make several changes to the script such as making the protagonist more masculine and changing the ending to be closer to the concept of a happy ending, something that was not well received either, but the determining factor was, according to Thompson, “you can’t ask questions like that. If you ask those questions, you’re screwed. You have missed the metaphor, you have not understood anything“.

Burton himself confirmed that he came to meet with Cruise to talk about the movie in the book ‘Burton on Burton’where he commented the following:

He wasn’t my ideal choice, but I talked to him. It was interesting, but I think it was for the best. Many questions arose.

Edward Scissorhands Scene

Of course, Burton must also thank Winona Ryder to do everything possible to get Depp signed, who at the time was her boyfriend, as Thompson revealed in Insider: “Winona lobbied for Johnny. I didn’t know who he was, he didn’t watch TV and he had been removed from ‘Platoon’“.

Personally, I’m glad that Depp was finally chosen, since ‘Edward Scissorhands’ is one of my favorite burton movies and it turns out impossible to imagine another actor in the main roleand you?

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Tim Burton was not sincere in ‘The Anthill’: Tom Cruise was about to star in ‘Eduardo Scissorhands’ and this is the surprising reason why he did not