【ハリウッドより愛をこめて】2012年の注目大作は、トム様VSレオ様？

. I am talking about the film that Tom Cruise has been training for quite a while now...the musical "The Rock of Ages". Now for all you readers that don’t know about this film, it is based on the 2006 musical that hit Broadway in 2009, and stars a who’s who in Hollywood, including Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Mary J. blige, and the latest darling in Hollywood, Julianne Hough (who was recently the lead actress in the remake of the 80’s classic, "Footloose").

"The Rock of Ages" takes place in the mid-80’s and is the story of a smalltown girl and a young man who follow their dreams to Los Angeles. It is there that they get caught up in the world of "rock and roll". Tom Cruise plays the mega rock superstar, Stacee Jaxx, who everyone idolizes. The musical features some of the best music from the 80’s, including hits from Journey, Bon Jovi, Styx, Pat Benatar, Poison, Twister Sister, and Asia. How’s THAT for 80’s music???? haha...
Anyway, Tom Cruise has been training, both in dancing, and singing in order to get ready for this role. In fact, while training for the role, Tom Cruise has been known to make appearances at some of his celebrity musician friends, sharing the stage with them for a number or two, in order to "get the rockstar stage training". The story is actually quite simple...it is about a smalltown girl from Kansas who arrives in Los Angeles, hoping to make big in Hollywood. She meets an aspiring rocker, and somehow they get entangled in the world of "sex drugs, and rock-n-roll", and they have to help defend the lifestyle and the world famous Sunset Strip area, from German land developers who have decided that they want to "clean up" the area and introduce "clean living". The trailer for the film, which was just leaked on the internet, is pretty interesting. And Tom Cruise seems to REALLY take on the whole rock superstar roll brilliantly!!! I have a feeling that this film will be a huge hit! It will be hitting theaters here in the US June 1, 2012.
Another film that is due to hit theaters next year is the long-awaited remake of the classic film and book, "The Great Gatsby", featuring a Hollywood dream team of Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, and Tobey McGuire. And the film is being directed by Moulin Rouge’s Baz Luhrmann, who is being reunited with DiCaprio after working together on the remake of another classic film "Rome + Juliet" 16 years ago. Leonardo has been busy filming "The Great Gatsby" in New Zealand/Australia for the past couple months (and during his off time has been seen running around with quite a few of the local "hot blondes" )