Editing Vanilla Sky (section)

===Development===
{{quote box|quote=In the days after completing ''[[Almost Famous]]'', the opportunity to keep our film-making team together was too attractive to pass up. I'd always written my own original screenplays, but ''[[Open Your Eyes (1997 film)|Open Your Eyes]]'', with its open-ended and impressionistic themes, felt like a great song for our 'band' to [[Cover version|cover]].|source=—[[Cameron Crowe]], explaining his reason for directing ''Vanilla Sky''.<ref name="theguardian">{{cite web |last1=Crowe |first1=Cameron |title=So lonely I could cry |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/jan/11/artsfeatures2 |website=the Guardian |access-date=August 17, 2013 |date=January 11, 2002 |archive-date=June 13, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140613003933/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/jan/11/artsfeatures2 |url-status=live }}</ref>|width=35%|align=right}}

After the American debut of [[Alejandro Amenábar]]'s 1997 Spanish film [[Open Your Eyes (1997 film)|''Abre los ojos'' (''Open Your Eyes'')]] at the 1998 [[Sundance Film Festival]], [[Tom Cruise]] and his producing partner [[Paula Wagner]] optioned the remake rights. Hoping to entice director [[Cameron Crowe]], who collaborated with Cruise on ''[[Jerry Maguire]]'', Cruise invited Crowe over to his house to view the film.<ref>{{cite web|last=Rodriquez|first=Rene|title='Jerry Maguire' Director, Star Reteam|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=20011219&id=y1FIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7P0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6364,7352841|work=[[The Miami Herald]]|publisher=[[The Ledger|Lakeland Ledger]]|access-date=August 17, 2013|page=D6|date=December 19, 2001|archive-date=May 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507165534/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=20011219&id=y1FIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7P0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6364,7352841|url-status=live}}</ref> Cruise has stated:

<blockquote>I've been offered a lot of films to buy and remake, and I never have because I felt it was too connected with the culture of that place, whatever country it was from. But this was a universal story that was still open-ended, that still felt like it needed another chapter to be told.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Majumdar |first1=Devdoot |title=Interview: Vanilla Skies Ahead |journal=[[The Tech (newspaper)|The Tech]] |date=December 11, 2001 |issue=66 |url=http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N66/Vanilla_Sky.66a.html |access-date=August 17, 2013 |archive-date=February 22, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222200402/http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N66/Vanilla_Sky.66a.html |url-status=dead }}</ref></blockquote>

[[File:Claude Monet - The Seine at Argenteuil 1873.jpg|thumb|right|The title ''Vanilla Sky'' refers to the sky as painted by [[Claude Monet]], specifically as in ''[[The Seine at Argenteuil]]'' (1873) which is featured in the film.]]
The title of the film is a reference to depictions of skies in certain paintings by [[Claude Monet]].<ref name="dvdcommentary">Mentioned by the director in the [[Audio commentary (DVD)|commentary track]] for the DVD release.</ref> In addition to Monet's [[impressionistic]] artwork, the film's tone was derived from the acoustic ballad "By Way of Sorrow" by [[Julie Miller]] and a line from an early interview of [[Elvis Presley]] in which he said, "I feel lonely, even in a crowded room."<ref name="theguardian"/>