Tom’s up for a new mission: Tom Cruise is back for Mission: Impossible 4 – and not only will the actor star in it – he’ll produce it with J.J. Abrams, Deadline Hollywood reported Tuesday. Cruise has signed on to reprise the role of Ethan Hunt for the Paramount super spy feature that’s expected to begin production this summer for a Memorial Day 2011 release.
Star Trek director Abrams will produce the feature and Alias scribes Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec have been tapped to pen the script — although a director has not yet been attached to the project.
Tom next stars in the Summer 2010 action/romantic comedy Knight and Day with Cameron Diaz, opening July 2.