‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning’ Credits Pay Tribute To Late Mogul Sumner Redstone, “Film Lover And Friend”

deadline.com:

After a flurry of action set pieces and plot twists, Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One concludes on a more contemplative note.

Toward the latter part of the end credits, it offers a salute to the media titan who acquired Paramount Pictures and positioned it at the center of the Viacom-CBS empires he controlled for three-plus decades. “To Sumner Redstone,” the acknowledgement reads, “film lover and friend.” Asked about the shout-out, a Paramount rep told Deadline it was intended as a show of respect from star/producer Tom Cruise and the rest of the team behind the film, which started production less than a month after Redstone died in 2020 at age 97.

But the studio declined to elaborate on the gesture. The phrase “film lover” was not the primary description to appear in the many remembrances of Redstone’s memorable run as an entertainment billionaire.

By the time of his death, the chairman emeritus of ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global) had long slipped into medical infirmity and a legal thicket, his voice uncharacteristically silent.