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Strangely enough, Tom Cruise’s break with Paramount in favor of Warner Bros. is not the first time that the actor and Mission: Impossible studio have moved away from one another. Back in 2006, The Guardian reported that Paramount had fired Cruise over a number of the actor’s public-facing controversies, including his affiliation with the Church of Scientology and a bizarre incident in which he jumped on a couch during an interview on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” “His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount,” Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone said at the time. According to The New York Times, representatives for Cruise pushed back on the idea that he was fired, instead arguing that he quit after Paramount lowballed the actor on his contract renewal.
Despite this heated split, the ensuing years demonstrated an enduring desire between Cruise and Paramount to continue collaborating on projects like the Mission: Impossible franchise. With this context in mind, it’s possible that Cruise’s move to Warner Bros. doesn’t spell the end of the relationship between the star and the studio. After all, the two parties have made it through arguably more dire straits in the past.
