Minority Report (film) Goldman in 1992. He created the initial script for the film with Ron Shusett and Robert Goethals (uncredited). It was supposed to be a sequel to the 1990 Dick adaptation "Total Recall", which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger. Novelist Jon Cohen was hired in 1997 to adapt the story for a potential film version that would have been directed by Dutch filmmaker Jan de Bont. Meanwhile, Cruise and Spielberg, who met and became friends on the set of Cruise's film "Risky Business" in 1983, had been looking to collaborate for ten years. Spielberg was set to direct Cruise in "Rain Man", but
Technologies in Minority Report ideas for the film's technology to Roger Ebert before the film's release: News sources have noted the future technologies depicted in the film were prescient. "The Guardian" published a piece titled "Why Minority Report was spot on" in June 2010, and the following month "Fast Company" examined seven crime fighting technologies in the film similar to ones then currently appearing. It summarized that "the police state imagined in the Tom Cruise flick feels a bit more real every day." Other major media outlets such as the "Wall Street Journal" have published articles dedicated to this phenomenon, and National Public Radio