Tom Cruise played explosive Hollywood exec Les Grossman in the 2008 comedy 'Tropic Thunder,' directed by Ben Stiller Tom Cruise's Tropic Thunder character Les Grossman is ready for a comeback. During an interview with Josh Horowitz on his Happy Sad Confused podcast to promote Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning,

Tom Cruise wants his Tropic Thundercharacter to get a spinoff movie. The original satirical comedy movie came out in 2008 and focused on a group of actors filming a high-budget movie who are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying in the war film.

In Grossman's words, "The universe... is talking to us right now," and we need to listen and make this happen.