Tom Cruise, Bryan Singer Made ‘Valkyrie’ Executive Producer Cry

Filmmaker and Academy Award nominee John Ottman recently revealed the trouble he had on the film Valkyrie, working with X-Men director Bryan Singer, Mission: Impossible director Christopher McQuarrie and Maverick himself Tom Cruise.

Speaking with Deadline about his Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing on Bryan Singer’s Freddie Mercury biographical film, Bohemian Rhapsody, Ottman described much of his extensive career in Hollywood. Ottman revealed how working with Bryan Singer, Tom Cruise and, Christopher McQuarrie on the World War II epic Valkyrie actually brought him to tears

Ottman served as editor, composer and executive producer on Valkyrie, and dished on how Bryan Singer would give him notes, followed by conflicting instructions from Tom Cruise and the film’s writer, Christopher McQuarrie:

“Tom [Cruise] would come in and see what I had done and spend a week with me, kind of checking in the editing room, and then Chris [McQuarrie] would come in and check what Tom had done.”

He also stated that, even though he was hard at work editing the film, more often than not, he wouldn’t be in control due to the fact that Bryan Singer, Tom Cruise, and Christopher McQuarrie were micromanaging every detail and undoing what the other had adjusted:

“I would always stay with a table full of chess pieces, but I’m barely moving them. Chris would see what Tom had done, and he would make a couple little tweaks to what Tom had done, and then after a while, Bryan [Singer] would come in to see what Tom and Chris has asked him to do, and he’d put things back.”

Ottman confessed he even wept after feeling so much pressure from the creative trio because neither of them would let him finish an appropriate cut of the film:

“So they would come back and sensed that he had put things back. I remember sitting and weeping. Literally, I would cry because I couldn’t finish because it got to the point where the changes I was making were not really making any difference one way or the other, and we were sort of a rudderless ship going in circles.”

Tom Cruise and Bryan Singer are no strangers for these type of conflictive situations around the set of their films. On one hand, Tom Cruise was recently accused by US Navy crew members for arrogant behavior while filming his most recent movie Top Gun 2. And on the other, Bryan Singer has been also accused of sexually assaulting numerous people during his career as a filmmaker.

While we wait for more news on Top Gun 2 and Bryan Singer’s future endeavors, here’s the synopsis for Tom Cruise’s latest movie Mission: Impossible – Fallout:

The best intentions often come back to haunt you. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team (Alec Baldwin, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames) along with some familiar allies (Rebecca Ferguson, Michelle Monaghan) in a race against time after a mission gone wrong. Henry Cavill, Angela Bassett, and Vanessa Kirby also join the dynamic cast with filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie returning to the helm.

Mission: Impossible – Fallout stars Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Michelle Monaghan, Alec Baldwin, Sean Harris, Vanessa Kirby, Henry Cavill, Sian Brooke, Frederick Schmidt, and Angela Bassett.

Mission: Impossible – Fallout is now available on 4k UHD, Blu-ray and DVD. Paramount has already scheduled the next two installments of the Mission: Impossible franchise to hit theaters on July 22, 2021, and August 5, 2022.

Source: Deadline