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Tom Cruise mulls co-producing next ‘Mission: Imposible’
MUMBAI: J.J. Abrams and Tom Cruise are back in business, agreeing to co-produce a fourth Mission: Impossible movie with a potential 2011 release date.
Abrams directed Cruise in the third instalment of Paramount‘s TV-derived franchise, which grossed $395 million worldwide in summer 2006.
But the future of the franchise was thrown into doubt — at least in terms of Cruise‘s participation — when Viacom chief Sumner Redstone discontinued his studio‘s long relationship with the star three months after the movie opened.
Relatively speaking, M:i:3 was a box-office disappointment, compared with the second film‘s worldwide gross of $545 million and the original film‘s take of $452 million.
Abrams recently rebooted a moribund franchise by taking it back to its beginnings with a bunch of young, relatively unknown actors. His Star Trek,released six weeks ago, has grossed $335 million worldwide so far.
Abrams is not on board to direct the new Impossible,and no writers have been hired to work on the fourth iteration of the franchise.
