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Filmspotting

Tom Cruise Draft (Bonus Excerpt)

Filmspotting

Adam Kempenaar & Josh Larsen

Film Reviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

October's Filmspotting Family bonus episode was a Tom Cruise Movie Draft with Adam and Josh, Producer Sam, and listener Zach Cook. For the full draft and other benefits like the weekly newsletter, access to the Filmspotting Discord, and more, join the Filmspotting Family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, film spotters, Josh and Adam here. Wednesdays are when we usually share a show from the

0:06.9

film spotting archive, but this week we're going to do something a little different. We're going to

0:10.7

share just a little bit of our October bonus show. Of course, bonus shows. We do these monthly

0:16.9

for film spotting family members. This one was a Tom Cruise draft with you and me,

0:23.7

Adam, producer Sam, and listener Zach Cook, who actually chose the topic. Yes, he did. We always do

0:32.3

a draft in October. The bonus show is always a listener proposed draft. We choose a film spotting family

0:39.6

member at random, and they usually suggest two options. We discuss internally which one of those

0:47.4

two we want to do, and it was Zach's first choice, the Tom Cruise draft, that won out.

0:53.0

I don't know how much, as we're recording this,

0:55.8

I don't know how much of the draft exactly that producer Sam is going to offer you.

1:01.3

You're probably going to hear, though, listeners at Cook break Josh's heart with his first

1:08.2

pick. You might also hear Josh break my heart with his second

1:12.1

pick. Or maybe not. You might have to actually be a family member and listen to the entire

1:18.2

draft to get all that. What I'm pretty sure you won't hear probably because he'll edit it out

1:23.6

is Sam with his last pick or two, just going absolutely into Looney Tunes territory.

1:29.1

So, you know, Philp-Spotty family members, they get that.

1:32.5

Yeah, that's true.

1:33.4

Though, honestly, I don't mind Sam's fifth choice so much.

1:39.2

It's his fourth choice.

1:41.5

And I'll tease it a little bit and give a hint and say that it's it's his choice

1:47.0

of the best of a certain franchise driven by Tom Cruise that I think I think would surprise

1:53.9

you might surprise a lot of listeners that that's the one that that befuddled me and you could

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