You have to give Tom Cruise credit for persistence. Nothing–nothing–will ever make him admit the essential incompatibility between being Xenu’s Prime Emissary to Earth and a bankable movie star. He just keeps plugging away. So, now that Valkyrie has ruined the good name of the Nazis, Tom thinks he’s ready to ruin an American classic. Specifically, he wants to do a remake of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. According to some anonymous flack, the dwarfish couch-hopper regards this as an homage, or something:

Butch and Sundance is a labor of love for Tom. He was eight years old when he saw the original and it made an impression that has stayed with him all his life. He can’t wait to get to work.”

Despite this post’s title, Tom has his heart set on Robert Redford’s Sundance role. It’s a measure of Tom’s immense respect for his source material that he’s thinking John Travolta would make a dandy Butch Cassidy. Criminy. Will Smith would make more sense, and Will Smith would make a terrible Butch Cassidy. Now all we need is Jenna Elfman or some other nutjob in the role of Etta Place and we’ve got us an honest-to-God trainwreck. Even the prospect of seeing Cruise and Travolta go down in a hail of bullets in the final scene couldn’t make this mess worth sitting through.