Tom Cruise nixed Paramount+'s proposals for TV series based on Days of Thunder and Mission: Impossible

The Hollywood Reporter

In a Hollywood Reporter story on Cruise's friction with Paramount Studios over the escalating costs of Mission: Impossible 7, Kim Masters writes: "As Paramount flailed for material to pump up its fledgling streaming service, would Cruise allow his longtime studio home to develop a Days of Thunder series for the streamer? That idea was strangled in its cradle. The idea of developing a Mission: Impossible series was no-go, too, even though the property had begun life in the 1960s as a CBS show."