Tom Cruise’s latest spy thriller, Mission Impossible 5, will join the popular, albeit crowded, December 25, 2015 release date.
Cruise is very proud of the franchise, even dropping out of director Guy Ritchie’s film, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., so that he could spend more time in pre-production on the fifth Mission Impossible film.
Cruise is working with Paramount, who he worked with for the highly successful Mission Impossible remake in 1996, and will reprise one of his most memorable roles.
Actors Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton and fan favorite Simon Pegg will also be reprising their roles from Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. Ghost Protocol was one of the more well received Mission Impossible films, coming in at a 93% on film review site RottenTomatoes.
TheWrap reported that M:I5 would be hitting theaters Christmas 2015. The film will be written by Drew Pearce, who recently wrote the screenplay for Marvel’s incredibly popular Iron Man 3.
Christopher McQuarrie directed Jack Reacher in 2012, which also starred Tom Cruise and pulled in over $200 million on a (somewhat low) $60 million dollar budget.
While their next film will be competing against some incredible films come late 2015, they did have success with Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol in December of 2011, when it pulled in nearly $700 million worldwide.
We’ll be interested to see how the film fares against the first Star Wars film directed by Star Trek Into Darkness director J. J. Abrams.
Excited to see Tom Cruise in another Mission Impossible film? How do you think the film will fare against Disney’s first attempt with their new Star Wars franchise?