Jeremy Renner has been cast to join the cast of the next installment of Mission: Impossible franchise due out next year opposite Tom Cruise.
Renner, who starred on the hit movie The Hurt Locker, will star alongside Tom Cruise in the next Mission: Impossible movie that is targeting a December 16, 2011 premiere date. Brad Bird will direct the Paramount film and shooting of the film is anticipated to start this fall.
Earlier this year, Jeremy Renner has an Oscar nomination for his role as a bomb-disposal specialist in Hurt Locker, which brought him to tears. Likewise, he was chosen by Marvel Studios to play the role of Hawkeye in its most anticipated film to be release in 2012, The Avengers that will start shooting in February next year. Also, Paul Thomas Anderson has signed him for his next film, The Master.
However, the development of the next Mission: Impossible movie has stirred with curiosity. Cruise, Paramount, producer J.J. Abrams, who directed and co-wrote the former installment of the film, had talked about the latest dynamics for the next installment of the film. They plan in casting younger actors to be part of the Mission: Impossible team as an evasion if they made a decision to reboot the movie at certain point with Cruise’s character not present or with a less role on some parts of the film.
Renner is about to be 40 that made him eight years younger than Tom Cruise, Speculations has it that if Renner has been cast as a possible successor of Cruise, it weakens the suggestion of carrying the movie franchise as a younger project.
Deadline New York was the first one to report about Renner’s casting on the movie.
Meanwhile, Renner will also star in Ben Affleck’s crime movie The Town that Warner Bros. will premiere in three weeks time.
