Starfield: does a Hollywood star play in the sci-fi title?
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While fans still have to wait for the official reveal of Starfield, rumors surrounding Bethesda's new sci-fi title have risen in the last few days. And even today, supposed information has surfaced again. According to a post in the Reddit forum, Bethesda allegedly got Hollywood support on board for Starfield. Tom Cruise is said to play a role in the project.In addition to the statements of alleged insiders at Discord, the Reddit post also points to a tweet from Bethesda Game Studios from 2018, with which the company may already be one has provided a hidden reference to a cooperation with the Mission Impossible actor. Last year Tom Cruise also made headlines because he will probably make a film with Universal for which he will fly into space. Elon Musk and NASA are also apparently involved in this project. Fans are now speculating whether this might be a Starfield film project.
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A few screenshots have surfaced again, which apparently come from an early version of Bethesda's RPG Starfield. var lstExcludedArticleTicker = '1372298,1372251,1372168,1372137'; Hollywood involvement in video games is not unlikely these days. The most prominent example of the past is probably Keanu Reeves in his role as Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077. We will probably find out in the near future if there is anything behind the rumors about Tom Cruise in Starfield. According to insiders, the game will be released exclusively for PC and Xbox. New material may already be available at E3 2021 in June.Source: Reddit
Tom Cruise In ‘Starfield’? Let's Learn From Keanu Reeves In ‘Cyberpunk’
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CDPRToday in “pretty out there but not impossible” video game rumors, we have some whispers about the idea that Bethesda may have recruited Tom Cruise to star in Starfield, its upcoming Xbox game that we know next to nothing about, but will probably make a big splash at E3 this year.
The rumor appears to be based on two things. The fact that back in 2018 Bethesda tweeted a joke-but-maybe-not-a-joke trying to recruit Tom Cruise for a project:
(this was after he starred in Oblivion and Mission Impossible: Fallout, get it?)
And then there have been some supposed Starfield “insiders” who are peddling the idea that yes, they actually did recruit him and he’s starring in Starfield.
I am not going to comment on the validity of this. On its face it seems like a stretch, and yet not entirely out of the question, given that more and more movie stars have ended up in video games, just like they started migrating to TV years ago.
Actor Tom Cruise smiling and waving to his fans on the set of the film Mission Impossible 7 at ... [+] Imperial Fora in Rome. Rome (Italy), October 12th 2020 (Photo by Samantha Zucchi/Insidefoto/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)
Mondadori Portfolio via Getty ImagesHowever, I think we should all learn from what I’ll call “Keanu Reeves syndrome,” where a movie star is giving top billing in a way that ultimately hurts the game and distracts from it.
Many of the rumors surrounding the production of Cyberpunk 2077 involved the unconfirmed idea that the story was reworked and Johnny Silverhand was made the main focus of the game after Keanu Reeves joined the project, and because they landed a big star like him, they wanted to make the entire plot revolve around him.
If true, I think Cyberpunk suffered for it. In my mind, Johnny was one of the least compelling characters in the game (how many times do you need to try to blow up Arasaka Tower man, seriously) and if we’re rating the overall performances/voice acting in that series, it probably goes something like:
Don’t get me wrong, I love Keanu Reeves and pretty much all his movies, but having him in Cyberpunk felt like it took away from the game rather than added to it.
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CDPRSimilarly, I would be a little concerned a Starfield with Tom Cruise front and center would come off similarly weird. Not because I don’t like Tom Cruise as an actor (let’s separate that from Tom Cruise as a person for a minute), but because planting a single major A-lister and their voice and face in your cast of lesser knowns is a recipe for undue focus on an individual star. This may be one thing for a six hour Call of Duty campaign where Kit Harrington or Kevin Spacey (ick) is the bad guy, but for an 80 hour RPG, it’s a different story.
I know I’m getting ahead of myself here is this is barely even a rumor, but it just immediately reminded me of what CDPR tried with Keanu and I would hope that Starfield wouldn’t fall into a similar trap. Or if they did, that they would do it better.
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