Tom Cruise is set to star and produce Mission Impossible: IV, set for release in the summer 2011. J.J. Abrams, creator of Lost and director of the Star Trek re-boot, will also produce.
Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec has been hired to write the script. The duo previously worked with Abrams on his ABC drama Alias. Script details are being kept under wraps and no start date has yet been established though Cruise is planning on making this his next project.
The Mission Impossible franchise has been a mixed bag. The first with Brian De Palma was pretentious fun, particularly Jon Voight and Henry Cznery. John Woo completely changed the style of the series in the second installment, featuring his own blend of ludicrous action, shoot-outs and motorcycle chases (don’t forget the slow-motion pigeons). Abrams directed the third. Outside a few shining moments from Philip Seymour Hoffman, it was a frenetic, new-age actiony mess.
The third tied up things nicely, but Cruise is desperate to reclaim his place on the marquee – why not go back to his trademark franchise?
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Sorry, John, but the second sucked and the third was a marked improvement. Woo knows gunplay, but he doesn’t know spy films and the second suffered from way too much of his style.
I’ve watched the third twice and I can’t remember a damn thing from it. Maybe the Predator attack on the bridge – other than that, nothing. Woo’s second at least had a few moments on film that didn’t require scopolamine.
Whereas you couldn’t give a damn about the characters in the second one and just wished they would get to the &%$#@ point. The opening sequence from the third demonstrates why Cruise is one hell of an actor (even if he is only perpetually playing himself) and gets me to care about what is going on. The politics were dumb, but the pacing hummed.
There was something in the first two that were deal breakers for me…so over the top that they lost me.
In the first it was the helicopter in the tunnel at the end. Yeah there was a lot of ridiculous stuff like the chewing gum bomb, but I guess that was the straw that broke the camel’s back in that one.
The second film it was the motorcycle joust scene. For the love of God, that one of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen in a movie theater.
So I never saw the third movie. I doubt I will see number four unless someone I trust tells me some good things about it first.
That midget couldn’t act his way out of a paper sack…
Here’s a script idea for M.I.IV: have Cruise’s character be given a mission to rescue a woman brainwashed and held in a mansion by her crazy husband, who belongs to a secretive, evil cult. Oh wait….
Very funny, JS!
Yeah, what JS said …
The whole thing smacks of desperation on Cruise’s part. A movie star should be cocky and sure of himself. This says the opposite.
Gah. Please, just let it end. let it end. I hate Cruise, I always have, and irrespective of that, this movie franchise has sucked from day one.
Mute…you know why!
Sequels, remakes, Tom Cruise=vacuum