Your Mission, Should Chris McQuarrie Accept It...

Mission: Impossible may have started as a vanity franchise for Tom Cruise to show every four-five years how awesome it is being Tom Cruise. But you have to hand it to him. He's had the smarts to not stick with the same director. The charm is seeing Cruise handing the IMF keys to someone different every time out (regardless of pre-Mission filmography) to varying success.

Brian De Palma, John Woo, J.J. Abrams, Brad Bird and... Chris McQuarrie?

The Oscar-winning Usual Suspects scribe is the favorite for Mission: Impossible 5. One could interpret the hiring-to-be as a sign Cruise and Paramount’s ecstatic reaction to Jack Reacher. Possible, then again this also spells to me, Paramount's planned "Clancyverse" (starting with Kenneth Branagh's shooting Jack Ryan reboot and Without Remorse, planned to be written/directed by McQuarrie) stalled.

He doesn't scream the obvious choice and that's why it's good.