Turn EWS into an action movie to up the box office
when Cruise infiltrates the mansion , the film switches genre Dusk Till Dawn style and becomes a non stop action movie. and he escapes capture in a ground breaking action scene that raises the bar for the action genre and at the time is talked about in a similar way to Matrix Reloaded's freeway chase..
After that then is a full on manhunt by the mansion people called The Syndicate.. They end up kidnapping Nicole. Cruise is then on a one man mission to rescue her and bring down The Syndicate involving mucho gun battles that make MI2s gunplay look like an episode of The A Team.
Kubricks homage to 80s/90s action genre cinema is hailed a meta masterpiece that grosses over 500m worldwide and wins 9 Oscars including best picture and director