Tom Cruise to star in MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 4, but J.J. Abrams won’t direct
It’s great news that Tom Cruise has firmly committed to leading a fourth Mission Impossible outing, which Deadline say Paramount have set a Memorial Day weekend 2011 release date too.
It’s also great news that the movie will be led by his Ethan Hunt, and it won’t be a passing of the torch flick where he mentors a new team of special agents as previously rumoured. It’s Cruise all the way, which is great because I can’t imagine this franchise continuing without him.
As we said on 07.08.09, Alias co-executive producers/writers Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec are writing the fourth movie in the absence of Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman who are writing Star Trek 2.
That sci-fi sequel has also taken away director J.J. Abrams who will only produce MI:4, favouring to direct another Kirk & Spock adventure instead. Abrams & Cruise are on the lookout for a director to helm the sequel.
If God existed… Paul Greengrass (Green Zone, The Bourne Ultimatum) or Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton, Duplicity) would give Abrams a call and say “me, me, me”. Hell, Steven Spielberg can’t get a motion picture off the ground these days – so why the hell not?
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This is good news? Have you not seen parts 2 and 3?
M:I2 was a shocker but M:I3 was very entertaining!
“It’s great news that Tom Cruise has firmly committed to leading a fourth Mission Impossible outing”
OK, I am now desubscribing from your RSS.
Fernando,
I don’t get the hate for Cruise doing another Mission Impossible?
This series has proven to be a top-rate Joe Popcorn summer blockbuster, at least two notches above the usual Shia LaBeouf tentpole, right?
Transformers, Eagle Eye, etc.
So ok it’s not The Bourne series – but it’s an entertaining franchise in it’s own right and Cruise is great as Ethan Hunt. I kinda like the idea that they are directors showcases, a completely different feel each time.
Mission Impossible 3 was a kick-ass thriller. Cruise had great hair in MI: II and made me envious of how blessed he was folicaly and Brian De Palma’s original was slick.