Tom Cruise Salary Halts Mission: Impossible 6 Pre-Production

While we think this issue will be resolved soon (the last film, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, earned $682 million worldwide after all), The Hollywood Reporter says that pre-production on Mission: Impossible 6 has been shut down due to a dispute over salary between Tom Cruise and Paramount Pictures.

According to the outlet, the studio was preparing to start filming in January 2017 with Christopher McQuarrie writing and directing again.

THR says that “one of the contentious points is Cruise’s back-end profit participation, with the actor looking to match or exceed what he is getting paid by Universal for starring in The Mummy… Mummy is a pivotal movie for Universal, which is looking to launch a cinematic franchise and has hinged plenty on Cruise’s star power.”

It apparently is the second hiccup for the project so far, as in July the film threatened to fall apart over script issues which pushed the production start from November to January. The studio is still hoping for a late 2017 release.

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, released in 2015, also stars Jeremy Renner (Marvel’s The Avengers, Kill the Messenger), Alec Baldwin (The Departed, “30 Rock”), Simon Pegg (Star Trek, The World’s End), Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction, Dawn of the Dead), Simon McBurney (The Last King of Scotland, The Theory of Everything) and Rebecca Ferguson (Hercules, The Red Tent).

Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION

Left to right: Tom Cruise and Cinematographer Robert Elswit on the set of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION

Left to right: Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt and Rebecca Ferguson plays Ilsa in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION

Tom Cruise shooting the airplane stunt for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION

Tom Cruise shooting the airplane stunt for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION

Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION by Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION

Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions.
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION

Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION by Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION

Cinematographer Robert Elswit on the set of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions.
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION

Rebecca Ferguson plays Ilsa in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Production
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION

Left to right: Jeremy Renner plays William Brandt and Ving Rhames plays Luther Stickell in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions.
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION

Rebecca Ferguson plays Ilsa in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Production
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION

Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions.
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION

Left to right: Cinematographer Robert Elswit and Rebecca Ferguson on the set of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION

Rebecca Ferguson plays Ilsa in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION

Left to right: Jeremy Renner and Cinematographer Robert Elswit on the set of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION

Left to right: Alec Baldwin plays Hunley and Simon Pegg plays Benji in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions.
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION

Director Christopher McQuarrie on the set of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and SKydance Productions.
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION

Director Christopher McQuarrie on the set of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and SKydance Productions.
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION

Behind the scenes on the set of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions.
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION

Tom Cruise shooting the airplane stunt for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION

Director Christopher McQuarrie on set while shooting the airplane stunt for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION

Left to right: Rebecca Ferguson plays Ilsa and Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION

Left to right: Director Christopher McQuarrie, Simon Pegg and Tom Cruise on the set of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION

Rebecca Ferguson plays Ilsa in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Production
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION

Left to right: Director Christopher McQuarrie, Tom Cruise, and Rebecca Ferguson on the set of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION

Left to right: Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt and Ving Rhames plays Luther Stickell in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION

Left to right: Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt and Jeremy Renner plays William Brandt in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION

Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions.
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION

Simon Pegg plays Benji in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION

Rebecca Ferguson and Cinematographer Robert Elswit on the set of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION

Rebecca Ferguson plays Ilsa in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Production
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION

Rebecca Ferguson on the set of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION

Rebecca Ferguson plays Ilsa in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Production
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION

Left to right: Rebecca Ferguson plays Ilsa and Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions.
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION

Tom Cruise on the set of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation