Butch Cassidy remake with Tom Cruise & John Travolta (rumor)?

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Oh boy...if there are any 2 people who I can't see paired together as sidekicks in a movie, it's Tom Cruise and John Travolta, especially as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. But Cruise apparently had Paul Newman's blessing and has expressed his desire for a remake. The U.K.'s Daily Express is reporting this one, so take it with a huge grain of sale, but it reports:

Cruise, 46, wants to cast himself as Redford’s Sundance, a performance friends say ranks among his cinema favourites, while Travolta, 55, will follow in Newman’s footsteps as Cassidy. The iconic tale of two lovable Wild West bank robbers charmed a generation and garnered four Oscars.

According to a senior executive, Cruise is already interviewing screenwriters capable of recapturing the essence of the original, which took $103million (£70million) at the box office, an almost unheard-of figure 40 years ago.

“It has been a pet project of his that has been on the back-burner for years,” said the executive. “But now he’s ready to go, and will most likely happily eschew the enormous salary that he normally commands.”

Source: Daily Express

Obviously this is pretty ridiculous, not to mention this seems like one of those movies that should remained untouched forever. Still fun to laugh at