From denofgeek, No surprise, this, given the success of Ghost Protocol. But Paramount wants to make Mission: Impossible 5…
It seems a long time ago now that Paramount was wobbling a little over making a fourth Mission: Impossible movie. You might recall that, after the box office takings for Mission: Impossible III fell a little below what they were after, the studio looked to retool the film that became Ghost Protocol, apparently to take a little of the weight off Tom Cruise’s shoulders.
Thus, in came Jeremy Renner, with the possibility that the lead in the series would ultimately pass to him.
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol went on to become a sizeable hit for the studio at the end of last year, aided in no small way by the scale of the project, and Brad Bird’s smart direction. Cruise, too, was on fine form.
It’s come as little surprise, then, that Mission: Impossible 5 is being planned. We know this, thanks to the CEO of Viacom, the parent company of Paramount. Said CEO, Phillippe Dauman, was asked at a shareholder meeting if there were plans to produce another film in the series. His answer? “Oh yes”.
It’s not a radical answer, nor is it a surprising one. But given the umming and ahing over the fourth film, we think we can probably expect chapter five to happen just a little quicker.
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I'm sorry but the whole franchise just sucks.
I thought the first one was snide and condescending -- an action movie made by people who don't have any interest in action movies, but think they can make a good one anyway just by connecting the dots. William Goldman (author of Marathon Man and All The President's Men, amongst other things) is totally "slumming" here, and the problem with his script is that he thinks of it as slumming; he's got no respect for what he's doing because it's beneath him, so it's an "easy job." Ditto Brian DePalma, who's hacking it up, trying to bring his patented "I'm a visual stylist" vibe to bear on a stupid story about hanging from the ceiling (and Jim turning evil which would never happen).
The second one was the John Woo, right? He's on the mountainside, flinging the sunglasses, with his long flowing tresses...and then he's got to smash his car up while driving around with that girl. Yawn.
The third was kind of interesting, since J. J. Abrams has a talent for creating the illusion of grit where none exists, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman was pretty nasty...but, again, it's supermarket filmmaking: Cruise just buys whatever the latest brands of actor/director/writer off the shelf, since (in his heyday) he could do that, and the result is a homogenized hollywood product. There's none of the passion and intensity that you see in a Die Hard or a Matrix or a Terminator or even a Lethal Weapon (Those Lethals get pretty hard-core and bloody).
The fourth one, who knows; I heard it was good, but it just looks like more post-Christopher-Nolan, post-Michael-Bay slomo-explode porn. Maybe I'm wrong, but the whole Mission: Impossible franchise is just such a joyless, by-the-numbers corporate endeavor that I can't bring myself to care any more than I ever did, which was not much.
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