Any word about J.J Abrams' involvement? Or will Cruise continue with his original concept of different directors for each installment?

Who owns Mission Impossible? Paramount or Cruise? If it is Paramount they should turn it into a James Bond franchise, with the Ethan Hunt actor getting replaced every now and then. Or just to a reboot. The Mission Impossible name is more valuable than the Tom Cruise name right now.

How much money would a MI movie make if it starred Hugh Jackman, or Ben Affleck, or whoever, versus what it would make with Cruise? More, Less, or the same?

I wonder: Not exactly sure, but I think Paramount and Cruise both have some kind of contract. I know Paramount cant make a MI movie without Cruise, at least for now. And to be honest with you, Cruise is still huge overseas, especially in asian countries. So would the moie make more with Hugh Jackman? probably not overall.

These movies start out OK but end up being ridiculously over the top and inane. I've never seen the TV show so I don't know if that's a convention of the franchise but for my money it would be nice to see them reign it in a bit and make it a tense, dark thriller - with some well orchestrated action pieces.

If I remember correctly David Fincher's name was being touted around for MI3. That was a step in the right direction. Maybe Joe Carnahan would be good?

I think Paramount owns the franchise with Redstone calling the shots. So personally I will believe this when it basically comes out. UA is an offshoot of Paramount and currently funded with something like $500 million from Merrill Lynch for start up costs. Since Redstone believes that TC cost the franchise around $150 million with his antics and behavior during the release of the last MI movie, it is really difficult to believe he would jump on TC making another one. But in Hollywood, anything can literally happen-if enough money and power is thrown in a particular direction.

what ever happened to all that talk about Brad Pitt replacing Cruise on the next MI movie?

and @I Wonder... Ben Affleck? lol probably not that much

This is the mov(i)e that will finally put a sizable dent in Cruise's career. I guess David Poland and "all of Hollywood" were right though.

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Tom, don't go away mad.

JUST GO AWAY.

I liked the third part of the film. Although I dont like Tom Cruise...

If Tom will do mission 4 pray the the story does not end up with further evil IMF agents. The IMF sting operations in the first three movies were downright boring. The movies did not capture the mindbending IMF operations of the tv series. Let the villians be based on todays world politics. Enemies such as Hezbollah, Al Quader, the Russian mafia, African warlords, the Iranian nuclear weapons. No more corrupt IMF agents with Ethan Hunt on the run from the agency. Mission 2 and mission 3 pandered to submoronic teenagers. Adults want to watch these genres also, but not when they pander to teenagers who want simple storytelling and boring missions. The tv IMF operations teased the mind with it's surreal set-ups when they captured their targets. The only aspect that the three movies got right was all the face switching that the tv show was famous fall. The villians in the three movies were cutboard cutout characters with no characterization whatsoever. Mission 4 will need an overpowering villian that would make all the other characters in the movie, including Ethan Hunt look good. If the audience gets a truly sophistcated and visual mission movie then I'm sure Paramount pictures will have their most successful mission movie yet, that will not only pander to undemanding teenagers/

WELLL TOM CRUISE I DID NOT KNOW YOU wore making a 4th


series of mission impossible welll thats cool

No one else can be ethan hunt. that would be just stupid and i for one would not watch it. I wish brad pitt would be in the next one and the two of them would be assined by anthony hopkins. Did not like him not being in the third one.

this may sound stupid and all but i was thinkin maybe they may end up goin to a sequel num.5 as then it would make M:I:5 so just fought may they may mke a 4 and a 5 then that may be it -shrugs-

I think it is great that your making another movie because i love all of your mission impossible except for number one.

Great! Love Tom Cruise!

No one else can play Ethan Hunt but Tom Cruise! This better not become like the Bond or the Batman Movies where the same character is played by four diffierent guys. Cruise IS Mission Impossible. And I don't know why so many people complain about M:I: III? It was a fantastic movie.

Now I can't wait for this M:I: IV to be kicked into production!

Oh man!!! A Mission Impossible IV would be awesome!!! What be even greater is if a clever, intelligent, and schemish, character would be thought up of as a big time terrorists. Then Ethan and Luther have to chase the guy and his crew all over the world while creating some sweet sweet action scenes. The movie should have no love interests and no corniness. Just balls out action.
I would love to see Tom Cruise come back and just be like a mad man on the loose and beat everyone up to get his way.

Mr. Cruise would need his A-Game to do something like this, and I am sure he can.

Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt He plays the part so well As people seen from the last 3 films let him prouduce and star in A lot more on till tom wants to Quit the roll because you need to keep up with outher spy thrillers like the james bond filmes because thers only 3 films and A fourth on the cards I mean thers 22 bond films we need more mission impossible films to keep up with the likes of the bond films and other spy thrillers I mean the first film was ok could of done with a lot of more stunts the seconed film i was blown away with the stunts and the action (MI:2 is my fav out of the 3 films) and the thired film great action and great stunts let the next mission impossible films come and come.

Guys, I jus cant wait to see the next installment in the Theatre.. I've been waiting for this for soooooooo long.. I luvvvvvvvvv all the M:I Series.. and for ur kind information, i luvvved M:I:3...

No one else can play better than Tom Cruise.. He is the best.. He is awesome.. He is jussss the right person to play the role of Ethan Hunt.. Brad Pitt???? huh forget about him...

well i think tom cruise is great, i mean ok,some of his recent films havent been to good,but this happens to most hollywood actors at some point in their careers.tom has to be in MI4 it would not be the same,it would be like haveing a different guy star as mavrick in Topgun,it wouldnt work.theres only one mavrick and one ethan.as far as the movies,i thought they where all good,but for me MI£ was by far the best so far.

I was watching the first mission movie and the premise doesn't ring true. There is no way Ethan would be implicated as the murderer and mole of his espionage IMF team without the CIA recovering all the dead bodies first. The only bodies not recovered were that of JIM PHELPS and his wife CLAIRE. Unless the CIA had JIM PHELPS dead corpse on a morgue slab there's no way ETHAN would be implicated. De Palma was given a dog of a script and made it more interesting then it should have been. Mission 3 is just reworking the week formula of the first film. Fishburne is reworking the Kitteridge role where Billy Crudup is reworking the Jim Phelps role. And once again Ethan is on the run from the agency. The IMF sting operations in three movies are just downright boring with boring villians. The IMF sting operation in mission 4 has to be truly inventive and not obvious as the first three movies

why is thee author ripping on tom cruises movie? the majority of his movies arent "blunders" and the reason hes so rich is because the movies hes starred in are so good. mi3 was bad ass for the record dont be so jealouse peter