“I took so long doing the script that Hanks was no longer a 35-year-old man. THE JERRY MAGUIRE ROLE WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR TOM HANKS.Ĭrowe spent almost four years writing the script. And that became one of the first ideas that drove Jerry Maguire: what if you lost everything, or lost a lot, and you looked around and all those people that you thought would be there for life are gone. “And the people that sort of stayed behind, who you realize were your true friends and would be your friends for life, were not the people I expected. “And all of a sudden I just looked around and-it was a good thing-many false friends disappeared,” he told Paste Magazine in 2005. THE LACKLUSTER SUCCESS OF SINGLES PROMPTED CROWE TO WRITE THE SCRIPT.Ĭrowe felt his film Singles (1992) hadn’t done as well as he would’ve liked and wanted to write a more personal and emotional movie. an Oscar, and blessed the world with such everlasting catchphrases as “You had me at hello,” “You complete me,” and “Show me the money.” Here are some “Kwan”-tastic facts about the Cameron Crowe dramedy. Tom Cruise played the titular sports agent (based on Leigh Steinberg), a loveable loser who has an epiphany and writes a long mission statement, sending himself into a career and personal crisis. Twenty years ago today, on December 13, 1996, Jerry Maguire debuted at the box office.
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