The Impossible Mission Continues

8/13/2004
Lacey Irby
Cruise had to find yet another M:I-3 director

Representatives for Studio Babelsberg, Tom Cruise's Berlin shooting grounds for Mission: Impossible 3, said they must postpone the filming of the Paramount Pictures movie until summer 2005 because Cruise was "forced" to get a new director.

David Fincher, who directed 'Panic Room' and 'Fight Club,' was originally directing M:I-3, but left the project to produce a skateboard movie called 'Lords of Dogtown,' scheduled to arrive in theaters in 2005. Joe Carnahan, who wrote and directed 'Narc,' took over the project, but departed because of "creative differences" with the studio. Jeffrey Abrams, writer, director and producer of the T.V. series 'Alias,' will now direct it.

The $150 million-budget movie also stars Kenneth Branagh, Scarlett Johansson, Carrie-Anne Moss and Ving Rhames, and it is slated to hit theaters June 29, 2005.

While waiting to film M:I-3, Cruise will star in Steven Spielberg's 'War of the Worlds," which puts a modern spin on the H.G. Wells classic.

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