Oct 13 2009Pun Deemed Best Title for Cruise/Diaz Movie
The Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz romantic-comedy-action film once titled Wichita, née Trouble Man, has a new title. Variety reports 20th Century Fox has decided that Knight & Day is an even better title than either of those previous, completely unrelated titles.
I'm just going to go out on a limb here and guess that the lead characters' names are something like Tom Knight and Cameron Day, and that they're also comically opposite in personality? Is that close? Did I just write a movie? I think I did.
Reader Comments
1. FruitLoop - October 13, 2009 12:51 PM
Mr. Furious: "My name. Ummm… wow. Okay… It's…Phoenix… Phoenix Dark… Dirk… Phoenix… Dark Dirk. I was christened Dirk Steel and then I changed it to Phoenix… "
We should all get actiony nouns for last names.
2. liam neeson - October 13, 2009 1:31 PM
My new name is Snatch Banger! That's like two actiony names. I Rule!!!
btw - tom cruise is a wack-nut!
3. bribios - October 13, 2009 3:38 PM
Yes IWS writer, you just wrote a movie. Maybe consider putting the couple into a dysfunctional marriage, and possibly throw in a wildly misbehaving dog. The poster should be split in half with a black side for the Knight character and a white side for the Day character, with Knight relaxed, smiling and dressed for the club, while the Day character is dressed up in business formal clothing, clutching their forehead in exasperation while a dozen papers fall out of their briefcase.
4. jaime - October 13, 2009 4:43 PM
congratulations on your first WGA credit, IWSw!
5. niko - October 13, 2009 5:06 PM
i want to see them together.
www.peolevents.blogspot.com
6. boxerthehorse - October 13, 2009 5:47 PM
All I can say is I hope they can work in a painfully bad pop song from at least 3 generations, and maybe at the end we'll get to hear a strong orchestral swell. I think the swell would work best if it occurs after ...ok stay with me here...after like say the two characters fall for each other, BUT something happens (he has an opposing veiwpoint perhaps, and he is seen canoodling...?)that causes a huge rift, and then they see each other and decide "I do love you!"
that's when I hope there's a swell in the music, i think hollywood hasn't done enough of this in major studio romantic dramadies.......
7. humperdinck - October 13, 2009 6:14 PM
Jesus. That sounds like a bad 80s crime-solvin' duo TV show.