Whom might 'they' be, pray tell?
Great white sharks are attracted to death metal music.

Yikes! What a terrible pairing for a remake, which is also a bad idea. I like both of the actors, just not for a remake of this. Perhaps it was going to be funded by Scientology so they wanted their two most famous members in a movie together?

It's such a hideous idea, it could happen. Hollywood recycles the same 8 or so favored actors for BIG movies. Cruise could probably pull it off; his acting chops are proven and considerable. Travolta? Can't see him convincingly in a western at all. At all.

I don't see either of those actors as being successful in a western.
Cruise perhaps, but not Travolta
And certainly not this movie.
You don't have to stand tall, but you have to stand up!

Then the movie would turn into "Brokeback Mountain."
"Sometimes my ruminations are too confusing for someone not inside my head." -Anon

Yikes, what a hideously bad idea. I am not a fan of Cruise AT ALL. I like Travolta in certain roles (A Civil Action and Primary Colors), but he certainly would be badly miscast in Butch Cassidy.