From Mission: Impossible 4 to The Mission!

Right now, I'm visualizing angry movie-goers demanding their money back after being tricked into thinking this wasn't Mission: Impossible 4.

Look it's well known by now Paramount is biting their finger nails over a fourth M:I adventure. Despite it being directed by two-time Oscar-winner Brad Bird, produced by their golden boy J.J. Abrams and starring up-and-comer Jeremy Renner (co-starred for that matter in this week’s #1 movie The Town), there's still the Tom Cruise factor casting a big shadow.

So what's their solution? Re-title it, of course! Yeah, that'll totally absolve all their problems. Having your competition next Christmas being the Sherlock Holmes sequel, Alvin & the Chipmunks 3D, David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remake and The Greatest Muppet Movie of All-Time aren't concerns, I suppose.

According to Cruise himself (translation: one of his assistants) on Twitter, the title will be The Mission:

"MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 4 UPDATE: Skydance Productions & Paramount Pictures join forces for 'The Mission!'"

Yeah. Way to think outside the box there, fellas. Not a bad title per say, but given their mentality behind re-titling (and rebooting the franchise as a whole), this sounds stupid.

Comments

[Jon]

Will the public choose to accept??? Hmmmm...

[welshfilmbuff]

Tom Cruise the Superstar/Man has to discover Tom Cruise the Actor at this stage in his life. I honestly think he can get has career over the stumbling block he put himself in, but to do that, he has to put the action movies to bed.

Part of me is intrigued with what they are gonna do with Renner, though.