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Posted by admin on Tuesday, July 20, 2004 - 01:31 AM

Paramount Pictures' Mission keeps getting harder and harder. After several weeks of speculation, it's official: Joe Carnahan has dropped out as helmer on the studio's third installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise.
Citing creative differences, the director left the project just two months before cameras are set to begin filming, although the studio insists the move will not affect the production's start date. Producers Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner will now work with the studio on snaring a replacement for Carnahan as soon as possible. Carnahan initially joined the M:I 3 project back in 2003 after David Fincher dropped out to work on Lords of Dogtown, which Catherine Hardwicke has since taken over. Carnahan had just come off shooting Narc, which Cruise and Wagner's C/W Prods. produced, and had received critical raves the cop thriller. Although the plot details are being kept under wraps, Cruise will be back reprising the role of super spy Ethan Hunt. He will once again be joined by Ving Rhames, with Carrie-Anne Moss, Kenneth Branagh and Scarlett Johansson also joining the cast. The script has gone through several incarnations, with Frank Darabont drafting the most recent version. The first Mission film, directed by Brian De Palma and released in 1996, brought in over $454 million worldwide, while the John Woo-helmed sequel grossed an even larger $546 million around the globe in 2000. Paramount just recently announced that it would be pushing the release date for the third film back seven weeks from its initial May 6 date to June 29. Since helming Narc, Carnahan has fielded several offers for gritty crime dramas. He's currently attached to Paramount/DreamWorks' Killing Pablo and Universal's Void.

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