Caffeinated Clint
Now wouldn’t it have been interesting if Larry and Andy have scored their first choice for "The Matrix"? Tom Cruise.
With Laurence Fishburne now signing on to "Mission : Impossible 3", the chaps might have needed name tags so we’d know that it wasn’t a Neo and Morpheus encore.
Anyway, a waste of white space.
Fishburne has signed onto the super-sequel. He’ll play Ethan Hunt’s (Cruise) mentor in the Paramount project, says The Hollywood Reporter.
Ving Rhames and Cruise are the only holdovers from the original cast assembled to shoot "M:I-3" when it was scheduled to film last year. That cast also included Carrie-Anne Moss, Kenneth Branagh and Scarlett Johansson.
The film was put on hold in the summer after director Joe Carnahan opted out over creative differences close to the original production date. Abrams quickly emerged as the frontrunner but was unavailable to shoot last year as he was committed to direct the ABC series "Lost." Cruise filled the gap, filming "War of the Worlds." "M:I-3" is set to start lensing July 18 in Italy and will shoot on location throughout the world.
Last year wasn’t the first time the film was put on hold. "M:I-3" was originally aiming for a summer 2004 release date but was pushed back to make room for Cruise’s "Collateral," which Paramount and DreamWorks Pictures joined forces to co-finance.
The latest version of "M:I-3" was greenlighted this month, with the film now scheduled for a May 5 release date.
