During negotiations for Mission: Impossible III, a group of Scientology goons paid a visit to the head of Paramount pictures:

According to a high-ranking media executive, Paramount Pictures honcho Grey had a highly unpleasant run-in with the Church during his tense negotiations with Cruise over Mission: Impossible 3. Leaving the office one night, the diminutive Grey, walking to his car in the Paramount lot, suddenly found himself surrounded by more than a dozen Scientologists, who pressured him to ease up on the actor, according to the source.

Following a terse exchange, the visitors allowed Grey to get into his car and leave, but the message was clear. Though he was unnerved by the incident, sources say, Grey stood his ground. After protracted negotiations, Cruise eventually agreed to a less generous deal.

Neither Grey nor Paramount responded to repeated queries, but a spokeswoman from the Church of Scientology disputes the report, saying, "The Church has nothing to do with anybody's business affairs."

Grey should consider himself lucky. The traditional Scientology "message" is two broken kneecaps and a llama's head left in your bed (horse's heads are just so trite).

Everyone thinks that Christopher Reeve ended up in a wheelchair after falling off a horse. Nope. He cut off L. Ron Hubbard on the 405 right outside Costa Mesa. Don't fuck with Scientologists.