Like MTV Movies Blog editor Adam Rosenberg, I too am a fan of "Mission: Impossible III," and I'm happy to hear that series star Tom Cruise and "III" director J.J. Abrams will reunite for a fourth outing with Ethan Hunt and the IMF gang.
What really catches my interest is the latest news from The Hollywood Reporter, which confirms TV Guide's earlier scoop of Abrams and Cruise's return to the franchise. It's not the confirmation that has my spider-sense tingling but the insinuation that Cruise might no longer be the face of the "Mission: Impossible" franchise. Citing an unnamed executive source, the THR story mentions that he might hand the reigns over to a younger actor, or even to an ensemble. Read more...
Contirbuted by Jeff Sneider
Some random AICN reader calling himself ‘supastring’ wrote in to report that Tom Cruise was on some popular program called “Smap Smap” in Japan where he revealed that he has started working on the story for a fourth film in the “Mission: Impossible” series, and that he’s been “thinking about how to stage a big action sequence in downtown Tokyo.”
Some of you might bemoan the idea of another "Mission: Impossible" film but I, for one, have always preferred Cruise’s Ethan Hunt to Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne, or any of the modern incarnations of James Bond, although to be fair, I am a Tom Cruise apologist who thinks the man is incapable of giving a flat-out bad performance.
Of course, this should be treated as just a rumor at this point but if “M:I:IV” were to happen relatively soon, we wanted to stay ahead of the development process and recommend 10 directors who might be a good fit for the series. Read more...
