[Movies] Josh Applebaum Talks Mission: Impossible 4 Posted by Chris Lansdell on 04.04.2010
What did he have to say?
Josh Applebaum, who is writing Mission: Impossible IV with his partner Andre Nemec, spoke about the film recently. Some highlights:
On Brad Bird directing: "I mean, if Brad signs on, A: it would be the most incredible thing ever and B: we would be crazy to not be using Brad's sensibilities to kind of enrich the script. We're all just huge fans of his and we're so excited about getting him into the collaborative process because his input and his ideas I think will only make this just more fun and enjoyable and help take it to another level."
On whether they thought of doing the film without Tom Cruise: "There was a lot of talk in the press that Tom might not do it. I think all along we knew all along that Tom is… There's no Mission: Impossible without Ethan Hunt."
On whether the film will be a true sequel: "Tom and J.J. were very much… They get the thing that the first one felt like a Brian De Palma movie, the second one felt like a John Woo movie, the third like a J.J. Abrams movie. This will absolutely feel like it's own kind of entity. They'll be all the things you love from Mission: Impossible in it, but it'll have its own sensibility, and certainly with whatever director we assign to it, that person will be somebody that will be able to create his own sort of spin and angle on what Mission: Impossible is, while still staying very true to the genre and the franchise."
On whether we will see more characters return: "You might."
