It seems that whenever Tom Cruise gets worried about his career, he puts another Mission: Impossible movie into the works in order to shore things up. Well, M:I4 is now in preproduction, and Cruise has asked JJ Abrams to come back and produce.
Abrams directed the third film, although it doesn’t look like he’ll have time to helm the fourth instalment as well. However Abrams has now said, “I am incredibly honored that Tom has invited me back as a producer on Mission Impossible 4. Tom and I have come up with a really cool idea we are pursuing.”
Hopefully Abrams influence will stop the movie being a complete dud, although to be honest, most people are just hoping that it won’t distract him from work on Star Trek 2, as that’s all that anyone really cares about.