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69Voltage
Bravo
glocksout
Lost me at SpaceX
L0rdinquisit0r
operation snow white, the xenucockologists own the us govt
FarceMajeure
Can't be in two cults at once
SuperfluousMeh
I want to trust but verify. So, if this is true, Tom can rise to one notch of respect out of zero. But only if.
tsterling00
https://www.nasa.gov/collaborating-with-nasa/film-and-documentary-guidelines/
drhobotron
Don't do this. Don't make me respect anything about Tom Cruise.
CylensTheDiscourse
You know things are bad for America when even a Scientologist is rejecting their leader.
Seethreepeeoh
A cunning array of stunts
ThisNameUnavailable
A stunning array of cunts
erinaceus
sauce"?
LokilairTTV
Its a big sign when even scientologists want nothing to donwith your grifting ass
nedwasatool
There are plenty of film makers who would deliver an entire film for half of what you would pay Tom.
CarlBassett
And the box office would very likely be a quarter of what it would be with Cruise on the poster. Hollywood doesn't pay these stars huge sums of money just for lulz. They pay it because people will pay to see their movies. Cruise has been creepy as hell, especially around the Katie Holmes time, but he has a long track record of making really solid action movies.
RicheTheBuddha
What about that final battle with Xenu?
CuddlyCynic
When even the face of Scientology has the moral high ground on you, you really need to rethink things.
WigglyBlondeNoodle
Woah this is actually true although worded poorly. The movie was going to be filmed in space. Therefore, the film would need to rely on NASA and SpaceX to get there, which requires presidential authorization to start planning for the journey. Cruise didn't want to have to ask Trump so he chose to scrap the movie instead (it sounds like he was going to be a producer of some sort).
https://screenrant.com/tom-cruise-space-movie-cancelled-donald-trump/
crusadurus
they were gonna film some in space? And people laugh at how hard it is for the Avatar movies to make a profit.
boredatworkthatsall
Calling bullshit. Not at OP, just this headline stinks of PR spin. Don’t know the guy personally tho.
anjeleyezjr
Even an absolute shitbag that espouses scientology won't deal with the orange shitstains bullshit.
Myotragus
Don't make me side with the scientologist. Fucking 21st century.
kahlas
That's the neat part. You don't have to side with him. Both can still be douche canoes.
datphone777365
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1Y2FseDVpYTdrMTVqbzU2Z2trd3k0Y2k5dzFtOGI0bzY3dGJwc3I2byZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/3o7TKL8SM4YJLr4waA/200w.webp
FellaWithUmbrella
Trump probably would have wanted a cameo again…
marsilies
If he could convince Trump to shoot himself into space, I'd be all for it.
QuarkCharmer
Why would an actor need to ask permission of the president to play any part? Unless Cheeto-man & cronies refused access/permission until Cruise groveled before him.
WhoIsFlabbergasted
Any movie that portrays a section of the US government or military needs approval, sometimes to avoid accidentally showing classified information
QuarkCharmer
Surely, getting that approval isn't the responsibility of one Actor in the production. That seems like it should be the responsibility of the Coustume Designer or Lighting Director.
WhoIsFlabbergasted
It's the responsibility of the producer, to have the script checked out. And cruise has been a producer on his own movies for a while now
Hyzenthlay021
Not true. As an example, I give you "The Pentagon Wars (1998)". The military would have put a main gun round though this if it could have. At the end it "gratefully acknowledges the total lack of support" from the US Army. They do need the military's support if they want to use military equipment, personnel or locations in the movie, but beyond that, you can make what you please.
StephenDaniels
Yeah, we already own, or in the case of personnel pay salaries to, everything and everyone.
ParallelParkingInABurka
/gallery/BHdkFSM/comment/2484609491
DaddyDune
Needed permission for what?
marsilies
To film on ISS, in space.
psstuphere
Wow, finally something good from Tom Cruise
DownUpUpDown
Tom has a ton of good movies.
psstuphere
Every movie he has done would be better if he was not in it
donthaveonebrojustlurk
You can't handle the truth!
herppavitunderrpa23
mostly everything i've heard from his tom cruise has been good. it's just the scientology.
Emjayen
This is some 'look, Dubya is personable and even enjoys a chuckle with a black person' as if this excuses war crimes kinda shit.
EroticZombiePants
He treats his job very seriously. He's a perfectionist but seems to have genuine appreciation for his fans. He drove all of his exes and probably many co-workers crazy, but he seems like he would be likeable enough on a casual level.
WarlockSniper
A lifetime of doing good cannot erase the foulness that is scientology.
IrrelevantHandle
If being part of a religion I consider a force for evil in the world was reason to discredit someone there'd be almost no one left in the world to admire. I've never heard anything truly negative about him not related to his religion. In a post me-too timeline we've got worse fish to fry in the entertainment ecosystem.
CylensTheDiscourse
"Hitler was a pretty great guy. It's just that he was racist"
brassmule
Not the fish?
CrabbyBlueberry
This is just one big ego refusing to bow to another big ego. He is not doing this for our benefit.
CrabbyBlueberry
Never attribute to charity that which can be attributed to malice.
Jimthebutler
Good. He won't bend the knee.
woodworkerf
Why does he need trumP's permission??! For what?
Hexidimentional
The cultist is too good to speak to a cult leader?
ClayBones548
Different cult. You don't want to get cross cultamination.
Hexidimentional
TheUnnamedPoet
I mean.. If this is true, Tom Cruise has regained the tiniest little fraction of respect back from me... But as long as he's still part of Scientology, he's still a buttnozzle.
CelestialSea
It is true, but come on. Musk is no better. He's just an idiot if he doesn't know that.
wabitgirl
He's part of a cult that is fundamentally incompatible with the MAGA cult. There's nothing to respect here, but I'd watch them try to murder each other with glee.
ThaDizzle
I dislike Tom Cruise for a number of reasons but the man makes some entertaining movies. He is one of those love the art hate the artist bits for me
wabitgirl
Hating a narcissistic psychopath is a correct impulse.
thedill2000
I miss the world where scientology was among biggest issues. (first world problem? Maybe)
EllenBeeP
I’d love to upvote this comment like a hundred times!!
ChelVanin
One huge ego refusing to bend to another is not cause for respect.
donthaveonebrojustlurk
It is if one is the fascist leader
TheUnnamedPoet
Given the current state of the political field in the US, any celebrity refusing to kowtow to The Cheeto In Chief is a cause for celebration.
ChelVanin
I’ll read this as good news, but that’s as far as I go.
Scobragon
I don't know, wanting to make a SpaceX movie in the first place makes him grade-a waste of oxygen.
aerodynamit3
Cruise has always been fanatical about filmmaking. During COVID he took safety protocols extremely seriously so that production wouldn't shut down. It's no surprise he doesn't feel the need to ask favors from someone completely unaffiliated with filmmaking for permission to do anything.
Chromentor
Well, if production is halted the church won't get money fast enough...
aerodynamit3
Maybe. But the video I saw was him explaining that lots of people would lose their jobs if they didn't make it work. During that time in Hollywood pretty much all production had stopped and the movie Tom was working on was about the only one still going. It was being used as a test case to see if it could be done safely and he took that responsibility very seriously.
pres465
I imagine Trump would want a cameo or something and Cruise was not going to have the thing re-written for that.
EroticZombiePants
Trump and Tom Cruise are both control freaks, and projects are only potentially functional with one control freak tops.
WoodORama
But we found out Trump is a bottom?