Tom Cruise & Paramount Boss Feuded Over Mission Impossible 7 & 8: "We Had To Hit Pause"

Brian Robbins, the CEO of Paramount, recalls a major disagreement between the studio and Tom Cruise over aspects of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two. The seventh installment in the long-running action franchise sees Cruise return as superspy Ethan Hunt to face off against a dangerous AI threat. The film, which is again directed by Christopher McQuarrie, was hit hard by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused its budget to grow from what had originally been planned to an estimated $290 million.