Blown for Good - Marc Morgan Headley [128]
Of course, the person who eventually worked out the new theme for the movie was Kanye West, whose Impossible theme went almost completely unnoticed and did not impress much either. In my opinion, Limp Bizkit knocked it out of the park and there will never be a version better than what they did.
Why, you may ask, were the Golden Era Musicians trying to come up with music theme ideas for Tom Cruise’s movie? Good question.
In 2000, in a meeting with several Int Base Executives, Dave Miscavige explained to us that he and Tom Cruise were figuring out how we were going to get all of the Ideal Orgs purchased and built around the world. It was a no brainer. Scientology was not making nearly enough money to buy any new orgs, while Tom Cruise had already made enough money for him and his next ten generations of family to live in luxury. With Tom’s newfound devotion he was now trying to work out how he could directly contribute to Scientology in a huge way.
Tom had now been producing movies, in addition to just starring in them. With his production company he was able to negotiate foregoing his acting fees while, instead, receiving a much bigger take of the box-office sales on the back end. This new arrangement was netting him a much larger payout on his huge movies. On Mission Impossible II, Tom’s production company got 30 percent of Paramount’s adjusted receipts for the film. On a film that made 546 million dollars worldwide, that is not chump change. If Tom could do one or two movies per year and make this kind of money, Scientology would be set. They would be able to buy hundreds of buildings, renovate them and drive the millions into the orgs needed to clear the planet.
In other words, and as Dave liked to put it, Tom Cruise was now going to fund Scientology’s “war chest.”
So, the Golden Era Musicians had one small part to play in this overall plan and they failed miserably. Either way, this was a huge blow to the musicians. They had just spent a week, up day and night, getting ready for the biggest concert they would ever perform. It went great and two days later they were back to being the scum of the earth in Dave’s eyes.
This was enough to have them sent back to the Base in disgrace.
Chapter Twenty-Six – Corrupt
After being posted as the Producer Gold for a while, I had gotten used to what was needed from all areas. Even though I was supposed to be over all production areas of Golden Era Productions, I spent most of my time working in Manufacturing. The manufacturing area was a disaster and was about to have the biggest production demand in history placed upon it.
We had purchased a CD replicator and several printers that could produce the transcripts for the lectures and the covers for the plastic binders that held CDs. We had a mini plant in place for producing just about everything needed for CDs and DVDs.
COB had recently laid out that he wanted all of the “new” LRH books and lectures released by 2005. Now that all of the lectures were being reviewed and re-edited, all of Hubbard’s books were also having the same done to them. For the first time in history, people were looking at all of these items as a whole and when this was done, discrepancies were found between lectures and books, and it appeared that earlier marketing actions had paired up the wrong lectures with the wrong books.
These prior releases were either approved or announced by Dave Miscavige himself. So now he would have to come up with a plan of how to re-release all of these items and sell them newly. His plan was to produce all of them and have them ready, and then when the time was right, release them. A new Mark VIII E-Meter that was being produced in Japan would also somehow tie into this.
We had an exact quantity for each lecture series in each of the 16 languages spoken where there were Scientology orgs around the world. I was asked for a plan on how we would produce