Tom Cruise is sued for a billion dollars

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Hollywood actor Tom Cruise is in trouble. The star is sued for a fantastic amount - a billion dollars. The celebrity was sued by screenwriter Timothy Patrick McLanahan. He accuses the star of using his script as the storyline of the action movie Mission: Impossible: Phantom Protocol.

According to RadarOnline, the writer filed a lawsuit last December. He is seeking compensation from both Cruise and the film company Paramount Pictures, which produced the film. By the way, the picture grossed about $ 700 million at the box office.

“In 1998, I wrote a screenplay for a movie called Fully Armed,” McLanehan is quoted as saying in the tabloid. - The copyright for the script is registered. After a while, the script was offered to Cruise's agent, but then they were not interested in him."

When Mission Impossible: The Phantom Protocol was released in 2011, the writer was very surprised. “I immediately recognized the script,” the author says. Now McLanehan demands to pay him everything that the film studio earns. This includes the box office ($ 694 million), profit from the sale of discs with the film (144.5 million), rental income and others (145 million).

Last year, Cruz confirmed that the fifth Mission: Impossible movie would definitely be filmed. “I'm working on a script,” Tom said at the London premiere.

A representative for Cruz has not yet commented on the information about the lawsuit. But it is worth noting that at the end of 2011, the actor turned out to be the highest paid Hollywood star according to Forbes, with an income of $ 75 million.