Here's one Mission we really thought was impossible: Tom Cruise and Sumner Redstone working together again.
Despite severing his 14-year business relationship with Cruise in 2006—a year after Mission: Impossible III blew up at the box office and Cruise bounced around Oprah's couch—Viacom overlord Redstone now says he's amenable to having the A-lister lead a fourth installment of the money-grabbing franchise.
"That's really up to Brad Grey, who runs Paramount," Redstone told reporters at the Seoul Digital Forum conference in South Korea.
"I consider Tom Cruise a great actor and a good friend," he added. "And if Paramount decides—and they will make the decision—to move ahead with him, I will not object."Redstone cited a string of oddball behavior, ranging from sofa hopping to Brooke Shields bashing, as the reason behind ending Cruise's lucrative development deal with Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures.
"He was embarrassing the studio. And he was costing us a lot of money," Redstone groused to Vanity Fair at the time.