Cruise or Hanks?
Tom Hanks as Richie Roberts
In the discussion (7)
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- Tom Cruise is proposed as Richie because he would commit to night-school preparation — Chris Ryan
- The objection is that Cruise would feel implausible as a 1971 New York detective
- A joke alternative casts Cruise as Frank Lucas
- Tom Hanks is selected for Richie Roberts — Bill Simmons
- Martin Scorsese is selected over Steven Spielberg — Bill Simmons
- Philip Seymour Hoffman is selected for Trupo, with Richie as an intriguing alternative
- Marisa Tomei is added as another casting possibility — Bill Simmons