Tom Cruise returns for Mission Impossible IV

By Alexandra Heilbron on February 10, 2010 | 10 Comments


Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible IIIParamount Pictures announced yesterday that it is making Mission Impossible IV. The film, which will be produced by Tom Cruise, J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot Productions and will star Cruise, will be released May 2011. “Tom and J.J. are great talents and we are excited to be working with them to re-launch this legendary franchise,” said Paramount Pictures Chairman & CEO Brad Grey. Screenwriters Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec are attached to write the script, from an original idea by Cruise and Abrams. The studio, Cruise and Abrams are in now the process of identifying a director for the film. Abrams’s last project with Paramount was Star Trek, which he produced and directed. The film grossed $385 million globally. Cruise’s Mission Impossible franchise has grossed over $1.4 billion globally.



Comments & Discussion

  1. ugh • February 10, 2010 @ 1:00 PM

    As long as its better than MI3’s “secret weapon so secret and dangerous that even the script-writer’s don’t know what it is”

  2. puttputt • February 10, 2010 @ 2:31 PM

    A MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin) is “a plot element that catches the viewers’ attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction.”[1]

    Sometimes, the specific nature of the MacGuffin is not important to the plot such that anything that serves as a motivation serves its purpose. The MacGuffin can sometimes be ambiguous, completely undefined, generic or left open to interpretation.

    The MacGuffin is common in films, especially thrillers. Commonly, though not always, the MacGuffin is the central focus of the film in the first act, and later declines in importance as the struggles and motivations of characters play out. Sometimes the MacGuffin is even forgotten by the end of the film.

  3. bubbles • February 10, 2010 @ 3:06 PM

    I have no idea what puttputt is talking about… but regardless, I enjoyed the Mi movies, as much as they didn’t make any sense, they are fun to watch.

  4. Chris • February 10, 2010 @ 4:01 PM

    Puttputt is talking about how it was never told what the “rabbits foot” was in MI3..and hes explaining why.

  5. ugh • February 10, 2010 @ 7:24 PM

    who cares what it’s called? they couldn’t think of something menacing enough so they didn’t think of anything at all.

  6. puttputt • February 10, 2010 @ 7:37 PM

    Some people are just too stupid to understand writing or film making to identify a plot device when they see one.

    Spoon feeding are for nubs.

    Pulp Fiction did the same thing with the suit case.

  7. Kevin • February 10, 2010 @ 7:47 PM

    I tried watching these movies, I couldn’t get into them and got bored after 20 mins. Turned them off and read a book. PLEASE NO MORE!!!

  8. demigod • February 10, 2010 @ 7:51 PM

    Looking forward to another.

  9. bubbles • February 11, 2010 @ 3:44 PM

    it’s n00bs not nubs….
    silly n00bl3t 🙂

  10. me • February 12, 2010 @ 9:28 AM

    I believe the correct term would be “noobette”


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