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Tom Cruise 'Has Issues' With New Joaquin Phoenix 'Scientology' Movie, Claims Report

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July 20 2012, Published 10:00 a.m. ET

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By Jen Heger - Breaking Celebrity News Assistant Managing Editor

Tom Cruise reportedly has "issues" with Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie The Master, which is rumored to be based on the founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, Breaking Celebrity News is reporting.

A full length trailer of The Master, starring Joaquin Phoenix, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman was released by The Weinstein Company on Thursday night, which only seems to confirm that the movie is based on Scientology, even though Anderson has denied those allegations.

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However, according to the New York Post, Anderson showed the movie to Cruise, a devout Scientologist, who has "issues" with it.

The Master, focuses on a mysterious, science fiction writer who founds a religion in the 1950s and many people have speculated that the main character, Lancaster Dodd, portrayed by Phillip Seymour Hoffman, is based on L. Ron Hubbard.

Former Scientologist, Marc Headley, obtained a copy of the screenplay, and told The Daily Beast, I can tell you that even if Scientology comes out with a statement that this movie is NOT about L. Ron Hubbard or Scientology, this movie is the biggest fictional middle finger ever flown their way."

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The screenplay has numerous similarities to Scientology, according to Headley, who belonged to Scientology's elite Sea Org group.

Similarities that have been remarked upon include:

Dodd creates a new contract for members of The Cause, which entails them signing up for 3 billions years of service -- Scientologist Sea Org members are required to sign a billion-year contract

One of Dodd’s followers refers to dissenters of The Cause as “squirrels" -- L. Ron Hubabrd referred to naysayers of Scientology as squirrels.