Tom Cruise Scraps Space Movie to Avoid Owing Trump a Favor

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/tom-cruise-scraps-space-movie-to-avoid-owing-trump-a-favor/

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  1. Tom Cruise’s space movie isn’t getting off the ground if that means shmoozing with Donald Trump.

    An anonymous source told Page Six that the movie star’s space movie, in which he would reunite with Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman, isn’t moving forward because it would need NASA coordination—and Trump’s approval. Those sources claim Cruise didn’t want to cross that line.

    “From what I understand, they would need NASA coordination to do the movie, and supposedly Tom Cruise did not want to ask Donald Trump for a favor,” the source told the site. “You’d need permission from the federal government.”

    “Tom didn’t want to ask for political reasons,” they added.

    Read the full story, [here](https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/tom-cruise-scraps-space-movie-to-avoid-owing-trump-a-favor/).

  2. Tom> I have my hands full with one cult I don’t have the time for another one

  4. When even an arch Scientologist thinks you’re too toxic…

  6. Tom Cruise is that one friend of yours that is amazing in every way but just don’t get him talking about one particular subject.

  7. So we will have to wait till his term is over before we can see Cruise dive from the international space station to the earth’s surface, with 100% practical stunts

  8. What an insane timeline we are in where even Mr Top Gun himself doesn’t want to associate with the US government

  9. Damn the bat shit crazy guy is like whoa I dont wanna owe the bat shit crazy president a favor…..I respect that.

  10. Cripes…now I gotta give props to the Scientilogy guy!?!?!?

  11. MAGA is so fucked up that they make Scientology look like the rational ones.

  12. Good for him, if only he’ll recognize the danger of that other Cult

  13. Even the dirty dealings of Scientology won’t cross the line of getting a favour from a mob boss.

  14. Before tomorrow Trump will go on Truth Social.

    “Tom ‘Crazy’ Cruise, THATS WHAT EVERYONE calls Him. IS a Loser. I’ve askEd many People if they See his Crazy movies, which theaters are coming back because on me (TRUMP!), no sees his StufF anymore!! CRAZY CRUISE you are wimp. I never. Believed HE did his OWN stunts AI FOR SURE!! People Tell Me I Could Do Those Stunts!! “SIR YOU are the STRONGEST PRESIDENT Ever!’

  15. Because Trump would immediately make it about him, about how Tom Cruise “said very nice things about me” and how “he said he couldn’t do it without me”, etc.

    Despite the fact that any agreement here would be between representatives of both parties with little actual involvement from Tom himself, Trump would absolutely use this as an opportunity to cast him as besties with Tom and obviously that’s not the look he wants.

    So, he moves to one of the other thousand projects he has and comes back to this when Trumps gone. Say what you will about Cruise, but a bad businessman he is not.

  17. Add this to the list of reasons why we should hate Trump, prevented cool Tom Cruise space movie from happening. 

  18. Man it’s like if the Deceptions and Cobra had ideological differences.

  19. Based.

    Also:

    > Cruise claimed in August that “scheduling conflicts” were the reason he turned down Trump’s Kennedy Center Honor.

    Based af.

  20. Jesus, I did not have “admiring Tom Cruise’s principles” on my bingo card

  21. Wow. I am very, very surprised that I find myself respecting Tom Cruise right now.

    I’ll recover my senses later this afternoon for sure.

  22. Yet another reason in the long list of reasons why Tom Cruise is a fucking badass.

  23. He’ll sit on the project until a more friendly administration is elected.

  24. It’s unfortunate that Tom Cruise is a raging Scientologist. I feel like he is really likable

  25. Don’t make me like things Tom Cruise does

  26. Wow, something Tom Cruise has done that I agree with! This is a weird timeline

  27. Well damn. I figured he liked trump. Good on him. Respect.

  28. Fastest bullet dodged in his career and it isn’t in a Mission Impossible movie.

  29. This is not surprising. He knows how to carefully walk that line. Go Tom.

    Incidentally, I watched Tropic Thunder for the first time and thoroughly enjoyed it. Tom plays a good hero and I love that trope, but would be fun to see him in some weirder roles like this.

  31. You know it’s bad when the Scientologists think he’s the villain.

  32. Fuck did I actually just feel some respect for Tom Cruise

  33. As wonky as he is, Tom Cruise is an absolute shark in the Hollywood industry. I think he sees that cozying up to Trump has hurt the credibility of other actors, whether they agree with him or not, so he will reject a project if it means he has to publicly kiss the ring. Tom’s got his issues, but he seemed to figure out something even Trump loyalists can’t: the man is not your friend and can’t be trusted.

  34. I guess we will get a Truth post about “overrated and has been Tom Cruise has always been a terrible actor” sometime soon from the big orange baby.

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