21 Pilots singer says he was fired from ‘Prime Gun: Maverick’

When Prime Gun: Maverick lastly lands in theaters Could 24, it would even sound completely different than as soon as deliberate.

Twenty One Pilots lead singer Tyler Joseph mentioned Tuesday, throughout an interview with Los Angeles radio station KROQ, that he was as soon as concerned with the music.

“Humorous factor, I used to be working with the music-placement individual for the brand new Prime Gun, on writing a brand new tune for them, after which I imagine Tom Cruise got here in and simply fired everybody,” Joseph mentioned. “You have seen that new Prime Gun trailer has been out for like three years. There’s been a number of overhauls, and I used to be a part of that.”

Nonetheless, Joseph mentioned that he hadn’t gotten far.

“I noticed some scenes,” Joseph mentioned. “They introduced me in to indicate me some scenes and stuff, and I really do not assume I began writing.”

A supply near the manufacturing says Joseph’s feedback are “simply not true” and that Cruise by no means noticed any songs submitted by the band.

Yahoo Leisure has reached out to reps for each Cruise and the film’s studio, Paramount, for remark and can replace this story with any statements.

Cruise has a fame as a harsh taskmaster. In December 2020, audio was leaked from the set of Mission: Inconceivable — Lifeless Reckoning during which Cruise might be heard threatening to fireside anybody now following COVID-19 protocols.

The sequel to 1986’s Prime Gun, on which Cruise is a producer, has been delayed a number of occasions, a minimum of partly due to the pandemic. The primary trailer was launched method again in July 2019.

Simply final week, Girl Gaga launched her new tune for the flick, “Maintain My Hand,” which she described as “a love letter to the world throughout and after a really onerous time.”

“After I wrote this tune for Prime Gun: Maverick, I did not even understand the a number of layers it spanned throughout the movie’s coronary heart, my very own psyche, and nature of the world we have been residing in,” Gaga wrote. “I have been engaged on it for years, perfecting it, to make it ours. I needed to make music right into a tune the place we share our deep have to each be understood and attempt to perceive one another — a longing to be shut once we really feel so distant and a capability to have a good time life’s heroes.”

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She referred to as working with Cruise on the tune and the film’s rating “a gorgeous expertise.”

Cruise had good issues to say, too, in regards to the Oscar- and Grammy-winning artist’s tune.

“It is like that second when issues simply got here collectively in such a gorgeous method,” Cruise advised James Corden this month throughout an look on The Late Late Present. “Her tune that she’d written simply fell proper in and have become actually the underlying rating and the heartbeat of our movie. She’s wonderful.”

The unique soundtrack was, after all, an enormous blockbuster, having moved greater than 9 million copies thus far. Hits similar to Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away” (which gained the Oscar for Greatest Tune) and “Hazard Zone” by Kenny Loggins, plus tunes from ’80s favorites Low cost Trick, Loverboy and Miami Sound Machine, propelled the gathering to No. 1 on the Billboard pop charts and the best-selling soundtrack of 1986.