As Tom Cruise is inbetween two sci-fi gambles (one being this past spring’s Oblivion, which failed to pass the $90 million domestic box office mark, and the next being Edge of Tomorrow), for his following project, he’ll be playing it fairly safe. Returning to his spy thriller franchise Mission: Impossible, we’ve now got a confirmed director for the fifth iteration.
Teasing with a tweet that says, “Mission: Accepted,” Jack Reacher director Christopher McQuarrie‘s gig was soon confirmed by Cruise’s camp themselves. While no plot details for Ethan Hunt’s latest adventure have come in, the original timeline laid out by Paramount was to have fall start after Cruise finishes work on Guy Ritchie‘s The Man From U.N.C.L.E this summer.
As he dropped out of that project, with Man of Steel star Henry Cavill taking his place, his schedule is now open to accept this mission yet again. Scripted by Iron Man 3 writer Drew Pearce, we’d expect this one in theaters by late 2014, particularly in a similar time frame as the franchise’s highest-grossing entry yet, Ghost Protocol.
Are you looking forward to McQuarrie taking the reigns?