Mission: Impossible Prefers Preachy to Crazy
With Tom Cruise now officially a nutcase, what new Hollywood hunk is going to take on the lead role in the Mission: Impossible series? I'll give you some hints: he's taller, less scientology-y, and will adopt anything foreign and impoverished. Yes, according to this article, Brad Pitt has been lined up to take on the lead in the spy series best known for verbally inflating the feasability of its tasks, and for a price that would make him the highest paid actor in history.*
If this somehow is true, what would that mean to the series? The article claims Cruise's Ethan Hunt character would be written-out, with Pitt playing a new operative who puts together his own special team. Luckily for purists, missions will remain the same difficulty level.
*Taking inflation into account, there was an ancient Greek actor who made more if you factor in his adolescent boy income.