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Cruise's "Mission": Find Director Fast!
Tom Cruise better hope his latest mission is possible, because he has to find a new director for Mission: Impossible 3 ASAP.
Cruise, who's starring and coproducing the spy sequel, needs to find a new helmer fast, now that filmmaker Joe Carnahan has bailed on the project, citing the usual "creative differences," confirmed Cruise's publicist, Lee Anne Devette.
With production on the third installment in Paramount's blockbuster franchise scheduled to begin next month, the 42-year-old Cruise needs to start working the Rolodex.
Carnahan is the latest filmmaker to drop out. David Fincher had originally signed to do M:I-3 but opted out for another project.
Cruise had been so impressed by Carnahan's work on 2002's critically praised but little-seen Ray Liotta cop flick Narc that the actor signed on as an executive producer for Narc to ensure that film a wider release. When the M:I-3 gig came available, Cruise handed the reins to Carnahan.
In Mission: Impossible 3, Cruise will again reprise his role as dashing superspy Ethan Hunt and pull off a virtually undoable undercover operation for a top-secret organization, with help this time around from costars Scarlett Johansson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Kenneth Branagh and Ving Rhames. Cruise, who is producting with longtime partner Paula Wagner under their C/W banner, has been scouting locales in Europe (a request to shoot scenes at Berlin's Reichstag was recently nixed by the German Parliament).
Execs at Paramount were unavailable for comment on the directorial shakeup or whether Carnahan's departure will cause and production delays.
Mission: Impossible 3's release date has already been pushed back once--from May 6 to June 29, 2005--but that had to do with studio executives eager to get more bang for the buck by opening the picture before the Fourth of July holiday weekend. (That date could prove something of a difficult mission, since the sequel would go up against 20th Century Fox's big-screen adaptation of Marvel's The Fantastic Four.)
Considering the franchise's track record and Cruise's command at the box office, there are high hopes for the third Mission. The first two Mission: Impossible films, directed by Brian De Palma and John Woo, respectively, have grossed more than $1 billion in combined worldwide ticket sales.
Aside from filling the M:I-3 director's chair, Cruise has plenty of projects in the pipeline to keep him busy.
He's due to reunite with Minority Report director Steven Spielberg in two films, the WWII drama Ghost Soldiers and a remake of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds, the latter due to start shooting in the summer of 2005. The Top Gunner has also enlisted in Paramount's The Few, another WWII drama inspired by the true story of an American pilot who joined the Brits' ailing Royal Air Force in the early days of the war.
Cruise will soon be making the rounds promoting his bad-guy turn as a hit man in Michael Mann's crime thriller Collateral, which is due out Aug. 6.
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