TOM CRUISE has been dissed by his former BFF’s, the movie studio PARAMOUNT [Website - TheLostGirl’s Blog].

Apparently, the studio is not particularly interested in having CRUISE spank some more arses and thwart bad guys (while wearing evening attire), all in the name of solving a totally incomprehensible and seemingly impossible mission.

CRUISE was the star of all the previous ‘Mission Impossible’s’. Therefore, it seems pretty weird that he is being swapped out at this late stage.

His people approached PARAMOUNT about the project, as they were interested in going into production and were told CRUISE could return, not as a star, but (as a courtesy) a producer only!

Paramount’s response was to ask whether Cruise would like to produce the film—as in, produce but not star in. And, since he’s contractually guaranteed the right to produce such a film at this point, it wasn’t much of an offer. This tells us not to read too much into that supposed rapprochement between Cruise and Sumner Redstone. And it suggests that the fighting between Cruise and Paramount studio chief Brad Grey over the deal for M:I3 was a lot more rancorous than we knew at the time.

We don’t want to keep you in suspense: Cruise’s answer was no. Our source tells us that Paramount met this with a shrug, since in the not-too-distant future the studio expects that it will be free, contractually, to make the movie without involving Cruise’s production company. Some film executives say they think Paramount is being foolish, because they believe there is an avid audience for Cruise in this role. After all, the last one grossed about $400 million worldwide. (Maybe M:I4 could pair Cruise with Shia LaBoeuf as the young successor.) But Paramount seems to think it could relaunch the franchise with a young star and leave Cruise out of the equation.

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