and Tom Cruise have already built a strong partnership over the last decade with Jack Reacher and four Mission: Impossible films. The pair are already eyeing up two more movies together, but McQuarrie recently revealed that a third film could be happening, and it would bring back one of Tom Cruise's most iconic characters. We're not talking about the return of Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible 9, or Maverick in the third Top Gun. McQuarrie and Cruise want to work on a sequel/spin-off to , meaning the return of Les Grossman!

Christopher McQuarrie recently appeared on the Happy Sad Confused podcast to promote Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, and he was asked about his upcoming projects with Tom Cruise. "The conversations we've had about Les Grossman are so f*cking funny," McQuarrie said when asked which of his upcoming movies with Cruise are the top priority. The host, Josh Horowitz, then had to double-check that the project is actually happening. McQuarrie didn't reveal if Les Grossman's return, in whatever form it comes in, is actually in the works, or if it is only at the conversational stage. "We're having very serious conversations about it and how best to do it, and it ultimately comes down to what that character is," McQuarrie.

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No sequels or spin-offs to Tropic Thunder have been officially announced yet, so it is unclear where the character could appear next. Josh Horowitz then asked if Les Grossman would be the main character, as he was only a small supporting part in Tropic Thunder. "You've hit the nail right on the head," McQuarrie said about the struggle of making Grossman a leading character. He continued:

"A leading man, Tom Cruise will tell you, has different responsibilities. Everyone asks, 'Why doesn't he do more [Steel] Magnolias?' You are a supporting character in that movie, you are allowed to say the things that he says, because he's not the protagonist, he doesn't have the same responsibility. That's the line we're always walking: the difference between a leading man and a supporting man. A character role vs a more traditional matinée protagonist."

Tropic Thunder, released in 2008, is one of the most popular comedies that most fans agree couldn't be made nowadays. Directed by and starring Ben Stiller, the film is filled with controversial elements, from its depiction of Vietnamese people, countless racial stereotypes, and, most famously, Robert Downey Jr.'s character, Kirk Lazarus.

Lazarus is a satire of the overly pretentious Hollywood actor, and he undergoes a skin graft within the film to impersonate an African-American Vietnam War soldier. This meant that Downey Jr. went almost the entire film in black face. Many defend the decision as satire, but some still see it as being in bad taste. As a result, Tropic Thunder 2 has been held in limbo for over a decade. There are currently no talks about an official sequel being made, outside McQuarrie and Cruise's conversations.

Source: Happy Sad Confused