Tom Cruise On Why David Fincher’s Mission: Impossible 3 Didn’t Happen
While audiences eagerly await the next chapter in the franchise, Tom Cruise is looking back on why David Fincher's Mission: Impossible 3 didn't happen. The third installment in the long-running action franchise saw Cruise's Ethan Hunt now retired from fieldwork for the Impossible Missions Force and instead training recruits for their various assignments and getting ready to settle down with his fiancée Julia, who's unaware of his real job. When a former trainee of his is captured and killed while on a mission, Hunt must get back to the action in the hopes of capturing the elusive arms dealer behind her death.
Cruise returned to lead the cast of Mission: Impossible 3 alongside fellow franchise vet Ving Rhames and newcomers Philip Seymour Hoffman, Michelle Monaghan, Billy Crudup, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Keri Russell, Maggie Q and Laurence Fishburne. Hitting theaters in 2006, the film scored generally favorable reviews from critics and audiences alike, all of whom largely considered it an improvement over John Woo's Mission: Impossible 2 six years prior, and would go on to be a box office hit, grossing over $399 million against its $150 million production budget. While J.J. Abrams took the helm for Mission: Impossible 3, another A-list director nearly got their hands on the franchise though one major reason ultimately led to their departure.
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While appearing on the Light the Fuse podcast, Tom Cruise opened up on the longer development cycle Mission: Impossible 3 endured. When asked about David Fincher's brief attachment to the threequel, the franchise producer/star said that while he would like to work with the director on another project, his vision
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