Dragon Tattoo actor to play villain in Mission: Impossible IV
Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest) has been tapped to play the villain for Paramount’s fourth Mission: Impossible film, according to Variety. The Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille)-directed espionage thriller is set to begin shooting this fall in ….
Zombieland director to helm buddy cop comedy
DreamWorks has won a bidding war for an untitled buddy cop comedy pitch, with Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer attached to helm, according to THR. Universal Pictures, Fox and Warner Bros. were also involved in the bidding over the weekend. Mike Arnold and Chris Poole – the pair who wrote the upcoming Beaujolais, which is described ….
Mission Impossible 4 now has writers to go along with producers
Paramount and producers Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams have chosen Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec to write the script for the newly revived Mission Impossible 4 project, according to Variety. Applebaum and Nemec spent four seasons with Abrams as co-exec producers of the spy show Alias, and will pen M:I 4 based on a story ….
Cruise and Abrams moving forward with Mission: Impossible IV
Mission: Impossible IV looks to be a go at Paramount, according to Variety. Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams have agreed to co-produce the sequel, which is eyeing a 2011 release. The new Mission installment augments Paramount’s formidable list of sequels already in development, including Star Trek 2 and a third Transformers.