By Iain Blair

After talking to Steve Coogan, I caught him in the big new hit Tropic Thunder and some of the funniest stuff is the section of faux trailers  - especially Scorcher for Ben Stiller, which is a real hoot.  CIS Hollywood handled the production of the Scorcher sequence, a 90 second entirely CG spoof trailer that explains the story behind action superstar, “Tugg Speedman,” Ben Stiller’s character within the movie. Scorcher was a truly collaborative process with CIS Vancouver creating the original previz and CIS Hollywood producing the final sequence with CIS London’s collaboration. 

What’s also very funny – and strange – about the film is that Tugg is obviously poking fun at Tom Cruise, the real life action superstar whose career has also dimmed in the past two years. But presumably Cruise is a good sport, as he shows up in the film wearing a bald ‘do’ and a fat suit in a cameo as an obscenity-screaming studio head – rumored to be based on such famous screamers as Scott Rudin and Harvey Weinstein.

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