Somewhere between jumping off the highest skyscraper and driving the fastest cars known to roads, Tom Cruise has taken Hollywood to gravity-defying heights. The actor can jump off a plane 25,000 feet high and ask for a retake. He can also hang from the side of the Burj Khalifa as if it were a tree in his yard. However, Tom Cruise’s ability to make Sir Isaac Newton question his theories is not enough to save Hollywood from its horror summer of strikes.

With no hands on deck owing to the SAG-AFTRA strikes, Hollywood, after presenting war stories for years, now is facing one of its own. It was the writers, however, who first put their foot down on the usage of AI. And it seems like Tom Cruise was among the few who were listening.

How Tom Cruise tried to reach a negotiation before SAG-AFTRA?

Last month, when Ryan Reynolds was all booked and busy with Deadpool 3 shooting and fans, were rejoicing at the bits from The Sandman Season 2 sets, Tom Cruise was busy attending Zoom meetings. As per The Hollywood Reporter, Tom Cruise sat on a Zoom call with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to highlight the fatal effects of holding AI at a higher pedestal than actors. With how things have unfolded, it seems like Tom Cruise is innovative even in failure as the SAG-AFTRA strikes mark his first legit mission impossible.

Knowing it is not all fairytales and rainbows when you jump off a cliff or get punched in the gut, Cruise made stunt performers the crux of his argument. He was not the only one to identify the impending danger, as Arnold Schwarzenegger had also expressed his concerns about AI.

Who knew that the danger these action heroes fought in their breakout roles would emerge as a real-world thereat out for their own jobs?

Cruise fights AI in real-time

In a twist of fate, Tom Cruise finds himself going on a strike and delaying the production of Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning Part Two for the threat he actually destroys in Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning Part One.

With Cruise currently fighting AI in theatres, the real-time SAG-AFTRA strike may seem like a promotional stunt. Especially after how high Greta Gerwig’s Barbie has raised the bar. However, the SAG-AFTRA strikes are bigger than Tom Cruise, Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning Part One, and any other project. If they carry on for as long as the writer’s strike, then we are looking at Hollywood’s first big-screen drought. And that is one Mission: Impossible movie no one is going to like.

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