McLanahan says he submitted the script for his project, titled Head On , to William Morris, where it

Tom Cruise is being sued for the Austin Powersian sum of one billion dollars for allegedly stealing the script idea for Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol . Screenwriter Timothy Patrick McLanahan is suing Cruise, Brad Grey, Paramount Pictures, Skydance Pictures, Cruise/Wagner Productions, and others for copyright infringement, alleging they stole a script he d written in 1998.
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