By Nikki Finke, www.deadline.com
This riff off of Tom Cruise's Tropic Thunder parody of a movie producer that was a hit at the MTV Movie Awards (and is a viral video phenom) couldn't come at a better time for him. Because Cruise's upcoming rom com with Cameron Diaz, Knight And Day, is tracking like a bomb. I've always said that, if Tom wants to have a film career again, he's got to get out from under himself and start playing other people. And Les is a great character. UPDATE: Oops, I spilled the beans. Here comes Paramount with the announcement. The studio obviously had fun and wrote the release in "Les"-is-more style. Now, the question is whether Joel Silver will sue?