Brad Bird Confirmed for Mission: Impossible IV

[AristotleP]

Source: Empire
May 7, 2010


On Thursday, Paramount Pictures announced that Mission: Impossible IV was being pushed back from May 27, 2011 to December 16, 2011. Now the director has been confirmed as well.

Tom Cruise talked to Empire magazine and said that it is indeed Brad Bird taking on the director's chair, as rumors had suggested. Bird is of course the director of critically-acclaimed movies The Iron Giant, The Incredibles and Ratatouille.

Cruise, who is starring and producing with J.J. Abrams, said "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."

He added that "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?"

[Sheridan Passell]

Putting a Pixar guy in as director of Jonah Hex really worked, so this'll be just fine.

Oh wait.

[dnwilliams]

He never directed a Pixar movie. He was the director of Horton Hears a Who. He just happened to have worked at Pixar. Regardless, Bird is a strong talent.

[Sheridan Passell]

It's like saying the guy who did a great flickbook in economics can direct the school play.

[dnwilliams]

...he probably could.

[dalmatianjaws]

He knows story flow and storyboarding damn well. If he gets a great DP, then he's set visually. The real question is: does he have story control? If not, bad fucking choice, cause he's untested in all the areas he DOES have control in. If the script is great, he wouldn't have to worry about acting (the otehr big unknown), it usually meets the challenge set by the script.