Cruise confirms Brad Bird for 'M:I-IV'
Tom Cruise has confirmed that Incredibles director Brad Bird has been hired to steer Mission: Impossible IV.
Bird, who also helmed Pixar's Ratatouille, had previously been named as a potential M:I-IV director along with Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) and Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz).
"I dig Edgar. Very nice guy, very smart, very talented, I'd really like to do something with him," Cruise told Empire. "I met Edgar on the set of Mission 3. Simon Pegg and those guys are hilarious. I love Shaun Of The Dead. It's amazing. But we're working with Brad right now. I don't know if I'm allowed to talk about it but everything's signed... Brad is doing it."
The actor added of Bird's hiring: "The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Ratatouille - Brad is enormously talented and [producer J.J. Abrams] and I are having a blast, cranking away. We're having a lot of fun. I like working with people I just love hanging out with. You get to hang out and laugh and talk stories and movies and technology: what are we going to do?"
Paramount earlier announced that Mission: Impossible IV will be released on December 16, 2011.
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