Tom Cruise’s new film “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning” recently premiered at the theater to widespread acclaim.

People love this film! First, he did it with Top Gun: Maverick, and now, he’s back again.

Though Cruise, who is a devout Scientologist, had a bit of an issue come up at the last moment, something that’s now being discussed…

The premiere of this film on July 13 went off without a hitch, and Cruise was all smiles.

Whereas news is now coming out about a very embarrassing event from the past in April of 2006 when the first Mission Impossible film premiered.

Just prior to the premiere in April 2006, college student Stephen Schofield planned to pull a prank and hire an airplane to fly a large banner past crowds reading “Hail Xenu!”

New documents show top Scientology officials freaking out as they do their best to stop the humiliating event from taking place.

Specifically, the church tried to have airspace shut down around the film’s premiere in Los Angeles in order to stop any kind of stunt from being pulled.

Church lawyers and members also reached out to contacts inside the LAPD to see what could be done, if anything, to stop the college kid from pulling his prank above the Grauman’s Chinese Theater premiere in LA.

Scientology lawyer Bert Fields was involved in these past efforts. The church even tried to talk to the FBI and convince people that the online forum that Schofield belonged to was “dangerous.”

The fly-over eventually never ended up taking place because of fog and bad weather, but the ferocity of the church in trying to shut it down is quite hilarious.

The Church of Scientology was founded by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard in 1953 and believes human beings are weakened because of extraterrestrial souls attached to them.

They believe an evil galactic overlord named Xenu is behind the original genocide of these ETs that led to them clinging to humans and ruining human psychology and happiness.