J.J. Abrams may not accept another MISSION
J.J. Abrams is now known as the man responsible for making STAR TREK cool again. Before that, he was the man known for making MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE cool again. Well, that and of course being known as the man for making pulling your hair out week to week a community activity with his incredible show “Lost.” In short, J.J. Abrams is a man responsible for many things, many of them being cool.
But Abrams may not be responsible for a MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE IV, as he told MTV that he would be producing the film with Tom Cruise yet “My guess is, given other things, that I will not be directing the movie.” Seeing as how each film has been directed by someone different (I was Brian DePalma, II was John Woo), this just keeps in the tradition of the series. While I love Abrams, I also love to see different visions of the same characters.
The film is currently being written by screenwriting pair Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec, who worked with Abrams’ on his TV show ALIAS. Not much is known about the next tale of espionage featuring Ethan Hunt, but rumors have been abound that a younger actor or ensemble cast was to be the focus of the next film, as opposed to Cruise’s IMF agent.
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Abrams let this rumor self-destruct when he said “I don’t want to give anything away yet, but I will say that it’s a story that will feel consistent with the world that has been created,” adding “It’s not a reboot kind of thing.” He did go a little more in-depth on how the idea of a fourth M:I came about, as well as Cruise’s involvement.
“Tom asked if I’d be interested in working with him again,” Abrams said. “I didn’t have a sense of what the story would be, but very quickly this idea came to mind, and Tom reacted to it in a way that got me excited, and then we got André and Josh to come onboard, and they began developing the idea with us.” adding that the “story was just so damn cool, and we got so excited about it.”
When asked about when we can realistically expect the film to explode into theaters, Abrams had this to say, “My hope is that when the script comes in — the dream would be that we could shoot this soon.”
The gap between II and III was 6 years filled with multiple delays, production problems, a complete cast, and script overhaul as well as 2 director changes before Abrams finally stepped in. Let’s hope the fuse gets lit a little sooner on this one. But now the question is, who will light that fuse?
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