Minority Report

Genre: Science Fiction.

Studio: Dreamworks SKG (Domestic)/20th Century Fox (International).
Production Company: Blue Tulip Productions.

Project Phase: In Development.

Who's In It: Tom Cruise.
Who's Making It: Steven Spielberg (Director); Jon Cohen (Screenwriter); Jan De Bont (Producer); based on the short story Minority Report by Philip K. Dick.

Premise: Unknown.

Release Date: Summer 2000 (tentative).

Comments: For a long while this project was going to be helmed by Jan De Bont (Speed, The Haunting of Hill House). Now Steven Spielberg wants to direct it and what some say is the biggest star in the world, Tom Cruise, wants to star in it. Spielberg shelved Memoirs of a Geisha and apparently nixed plans to direct the Charles Lindberg biopic for Minority Report. As for Cruise, expect him to jump straight from Mission: Impossible 2 to this project. Things're heating up.

Rumors: Unknown.

Scoop Feedback:

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January 3, 1999... It's barely 1999 and we're already talking about what could be the biggest film in the summer of 2000: Minority Report. If things hold together this would be the first collaboration between the two powerhouses of Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise.

In the late fall of 1998 DreamWorks SKG and Twentieth Century Fox announced they will jointly produce this sci-fi action thriller, which is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick. The picture, which is expected to begin production in the fall of 1999 after Cruise wraps the sequel to Mission: Impossible, centers on a cop in the futuristic society where people are arrested and convicted for crimes they have yet to commit.

According to a report at the time in Daily Variety, this special effects-laden film is expected to cost a relatively modest $80 million, not including sizable participation points for Spielberg and Cruise. The two studios will co-finance the film, with Fox taking on worldwide theatrical and international home video distribution, and DreamWorks handling domestic home video and worldwide television distribution.

Here's what the really important people had to say at the time:

"I'm thrilled by the opportunity of working with Tom Cruise and, at the same time, returning to the genre of science fiction," said Steven Spielberg.

"We feel very fortunate to have developed a piece of material that has attracted the talents and star power of both Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise," said Bill Mechanic, Twentieth Century Fox president.

Tom didn't say anything.

The companies have also agreed to partner on one other Spielberg-directed picture, which will be named later. This brings the number to four Fox-DreamWorks co-productions currently in the works. [Scoops written up by 'Deadpool'.]



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