One more meta note just for fun. Back in 2011, on The Ricky Gervais Show podcast, Karl Pilkington pitched a movie idea that was eventually dubbed Bryan’s Brain in jest by Stephen Merchant and Ricky. It was later animated into the HBO show that illustrated some of the podcast’s highlights. In it, Karl fantasizes about a situation where an out of work actor gets into a massive car crash at the same time that Tom Cruise dies in an on-set accident. With the other actor, Bryan, still being alive but with a broken body, his brain is transplanted into Cruise’s body, and he resumes his life as a new form of Tom Cruise, using the famous face to finally get the Hollywood opportunities he’s been denied throughout his career.
