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Tom Cruise’s Underwater Thriller 'Deeper' Stalls Over Budget Dispute

Director Doug Liman is considering other projects after Warner Bros balked at the team’s $275 million budget request, with no new studio stepping in.

Tom Cruise on the set of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning from Paramount Pictures and Skydance.

Overview

  • Warner Bros executives capped financing at $230 million after Tom Cruise and Doug Liman sought $275 million, pausing production.
  • Reports indicate director Doug Liman is exploring other projects in light of the unresolved financing.
  • Universal Pictures has not received a formal pitch for the deep-sea venture and Paramount Pictures has yet to commit.
  • Months of preparation face jeopardy with the planned shoot approaching and no studio having greenlit the high-cost project.
  • Deeper was revived earlier this year with Tom Cruise, Ana de Armas and Christopher McQuarrie attached, underscoring heightened studio caution over big-budget blockbusters in the post-COVID landscape.