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Steven Spielberg is said to be feuding with his one-time heroic leading man Tom Cruise. The Oscar-winning director is said to have soured on Cruise over the actor’s ties with the controversial Church of Scientology. And Oscar nominee Scarlett Johansson is also said to be feuding with Cruise for the same reasons.
Scarlett Johansson was said to be up for the role of the heroine in the 2006 Mission Impossible installment Mission Impossible III when she was just 21 years old and before ScarJo as she is known became a big budget box office star herself. Apparently, some people are saying that at the time the recently single Tom Cruise who had just broken up with Penélope Cruz had designs on her to be his next trophy wife. That job would later go to Katie Holmes.
Oscar-nominated actor Tom Cruise, who has blown away the worldwide box office over the year with his blockbuster “Mission Impossible” franchise, also starred in two different Steven Spielberg action films over the years. The first was the 2002 science fiction thriller “Minority Report,” which was based on a Philip K. Dick short story. The duo then reunited on another science fiction big budget adaption in the 2005 remake of “War of the Worlds” based on the classic H. G. Wells book.
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And it has also been reported that Steven Spielberg wanted Tom Cruise to star in the 2008 film “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” Brad Pitt, who is also said to not like Cruise very much, ending up get an Oscar nod for the role when he was cast after Spielberg left the project.
Apparently, the falling out was related to how Tom Cruise behaved when he was supposed to be promoting War of the Worlds. This is when he was first dating Katie Holmes and made a fool of himself on the Oprah Winfrey Show. And he also slandered actress Brooke Shields because she publicly acknowledged taking antidepressants to treat her postpartum depression. Scientology rejects psychiatry and the use of psychiatric medications in all of their forms. Cruise was widely criticized for his comments about Shields which came during an appearance on the Today Show.
In other Steven Spielberg news, the director is set to produce a long planned biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte for HBO. The project was originally planned as a feature film by Stanley Kubrick, but will now be a television mini-series instead.
