“But after Mission, Tom felt very, very old. “Tom always seemed like the logical guy to play Pre,” says Towne.
A quote from Towne in a 1998 interview with The Morning Call makes that clear: It might surprise some of you to learn that Hollywood’s resident couch-jumping, own-stunt-doing maniac was so deeply involved in such a seminal piece of U of O movie history, but many have said that Without Limits might have never been made if Cruise hadn’t championed the project with every ounce of his late-nineties clout.īut before he signed on as a Producer, Cruise originally envisioned himself donning that iconic yellow Oregon singlet.ĭirector Robert Towne (Writer of Chinatown, Mission(s) Impossible 1 & 2, et al.) had no doubt that the then-thirty-six-year-old Cruise had aspirations to bring Steve Prefontaine to life. Prefontaine films produced by Tom Cruise.Īnd it looks like 1998’s Without Limits just-so-happens to be the only film that lands in the middle of the Pre/Cruise Venn Diagram-and it’s also the ONLY dramatized Prefontaine film that is officially recognized by Ditch Rich. Since nobody knows when Oregon basketball will be back in any form, and since I’ve somehow been writing an Oregon-centered newsletter for like four months without even once mentioning Steve Prefontaine, I figured it’s a perfect time to cover a UO topic that is near and dear to my heart:
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