Well, the new blood Paramount has been talking about for the Mission: Impossible franchise looks like it’s coming in the form of 39-year old Oscar nominated actor Jeremy Renner. The Hurt Locker star is negotiating to star alongside Tom Cruise in the fourth installment of the M:I franchise. Ratatouille director Brad Bird is helming the project, while J.J. Abrams is producing the recently greenlit movie. Deadline Hollywood first reported the news.
Renner, a character actor for over a decade, has garnered a lot of attention following his star-turning role in last year’s Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker. Marvel Studios just cast him as Hawkeye in the superhero mash-up The Avengers. He will next be seen the Ben Affleck-directed drama The Town, which bows on Sept. 17.
So does this mean that maybe Renner will carry the series should Ethan Hunt meet an unfortunate demise in Part 4?
either that, or he’s the bad guy – count on it
Too bad the TV show’s original premise of a TEAM of agents (IMF) was dropped 20 minutes into the first movie, making the whole franchise just a star vehicle for Cruise.
But that’s what made MI3 so good, they assembled a TEAM-I’d be quite pleased to welcome back Simon Pegg and Maggie Q
yeah..no. look how good the team thing worked for ‘The A team’. that movie flopped. MI is big because of Cruise.
apples and oranges
I didn’t like the third one. Actually, I didn’t like the second one either.
Is Renner still involved in the supposed P.T. Anderson Scientology movie THE MASTER? If so, that might make things weird between him and Cruise.
For now that movie is cancelled.
may be
Great movie and NerdDatingSite was delightful