{"id":605949,"date":"2026-05-27T03:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/605949\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:50:10","slug":"how-tom-cruise-almost-ended-up-in-a-spider-man-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/605949\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tom Cruise almost ended up in a ‘Spider-Man’ movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Credit: Far Out \/ \ud2f0\ube44\ud150 TV10 \/ Sony Pictures Releasing<\/p>\n

Tue 26 May 2026 19:45, UK <\/p>\n

The list of actors who\u2019ve never appeared in a superhero movie grows shorter with each passing year, but unless something drastic changes, it seems safe to assume that Tom Cruise<\/a> won\u2019t be suiting up.<\/p>\n

After all, if you hire Tom Cruise to be in a superhero movie, then it\u2019s not really a superhero movie anymore; it\u2019s a Tom Cruise movie. Some actors do it for an easy paycheque or to land themselves a high-paying recurring role, but it\u2019s not like he needs either of those things, being an obscenely wealthy A-lister.<\/p>\n

He did have a few chats with Marvel about Iron Man<\/a> back in the day, but things never went much further than that, which was probably for the best, since you can\u2019t really imagine Cruise hanging around the studio\u2019s shared universe for a decade like Robert Downey Jr did, and what would be the point, really, when CGI and spandex renders the death-defying stunts he loves so much as largely obsolete?<\/p>\n

However, the diminutive daredevil could have popped up in a Spider-Man movie, of all things, under incredibly convoluted circumstances. How convoluted? Well, since the directors of the film in question couldn\u2019t really explain it without getting bogged down in minutiae, incredibly so.<\/p>\n

One of the most visually inventive superhero flicks<\/a> of an increasingly identikit era, Bob Persichetti, Rodney Rothman, and Peter Ramsey\u2019s animated blockbuster, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, deservedly won the Academy Award for \u2018Best Animated Feature\u2019. It\u2019s got enough Spider-Men as it is, but it almost had another one, sort of, which would have seen Shameik Moore\u2019s Miles Morales go well beyond the fourth wall.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a movie version of a movie about Spider-Man in Miles\u2019 universe about the real person Spider-Man, but it was a James Cameron-directed movie with Tom Cruise as Spidey,\u201d Rothman explained. \u201cAnd it was James Cameron and Spidey and Tom Cruise on the audio,\u201d with the filmmaker elaborating that \u201cit was literally the director\u2019s commentary with guest star, Tom Cruise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Essentially, the scene would have taken place in the world in which Into the Spider-Verse is set, where the character has a biographical film made about them, which starred Cruise as the web-slinger with Cameron as the director<\/a>, with the real Spider-Man, not the one being played by Cruise, serving as a technical advisor on the film-within-a-film, and sitting down for a commentary track with the Mission: Impossible star, we think.<\/p>\n

Further reading: Cutting Room Floor<\/p>\n

See what we meant by convoluted? Rothman acknowledged that, right enough. \u201cThe fact that it\u2019s taken us almost three minutes to explain this idea to you gives you an idea of why it didn\u2019t make it in.\u201d It sounds a bit much to be honest, but the filmmakers did at least have a great time throwing the idea around between them, with Persichetti adding, \u201cOh my god, it was fun to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Presumably, it wouldn\u2019t have been Cruise providing the voice, since he\u2019s never done a voiceover for anything in his life, and the proposed scene may not have stood a chance of making it into the finished feature anyway, since the actor is also so protective of his likeness<\/a> that he won\u2019t licence it out to anyone or anything without his direct approval or involvement.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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