Crudup Gets IMPOSSIBLE Assignment

By: News Editor
Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Source: Variety

Director J.J. Abrams and Paramount Pictures have signed actor Billy Crudup for MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 3.

Crudup joins a cast which includes Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Keri Russell.

Filming began this past July and the movie is scheduled to be released next May.

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Comments/Responses

lracors • Aug 31, 2005, 08:59am •

He can't be a villain... too wimpy.

• Aug 31, 2005, 11:06am •

If he can`t be a villian, then he can`t really be an agent either. I bet that he is cast as a villian. Villians don`t have to be physically dominant, to be great villians. Look at Cillian, as Scarecrow. He was a great villian and weighs like 140, wet. I think they should cast a villian like that. I mean, Cruise can have plenty of other guys to beat up at the end. And who`s to say Crudup won`t bulk up like Bale did for Batman?

• Aug 31, 2005, 01:18pm •

All i know is Crudup was b.a. in Almost Famous. i hope he's the villian. but then again, dougray scott wasnt very intimidating either.

• Aug 31, 2005, 03:50pm •

Oh Gawd....not ANOTHER one of these BAD remakes of the excellent TV series. It's all a show off of Tommy "I'm a Mad Man" Cruise! Count me out!

• Aug 31, 2005, 07:42pm •

I believe th Mission Impossible movies to be the BEST of the tv remakes. I can't think of any other tv series that's made a better movie, or more money. And the way they do it, picking a unique director for each film with his own style, keeps it fresh. MI2 was hammy, but still rocked. It was the spy film closest to being considered pop art. I mean, that musical score and the cinematography was amazing.

• Aug 31, 2005, 07:43pm •

Oh, and even though Cruise is off his rocker, it doesn't mean his characters are.

• Aug 31, 2005, 09:40pm •

Yeah, Cruise can act- even as crazy as he is. War of the Worlds had its flaws (the aliens looked patheticly bad, some poor pacing, etc.), but Cruise and the special effects made the movie worth watching.

The Mission Impossible movies are great. I am really looking forward to the third one. The first one right away distanced itself from the TV show, so it now has a life of it's own.

• Sep 01, 2005, 01:59am •

They have Thomas Hayden Church as the baddie in Spiderman 3. I see him (Church) more as a funny guy than a baddie so maybe Crudup will surprize us all, if in fact he is a baddie.

lracors • Sep 01, 2005, 08:55am •

I agree with the bigbadbuffyfan MI is one of the better TV to film movies around. and despite cruise's dementa he can act.

• Sep 02, 2005, 05:26pm •

I like Billy. I'm sure he can play a villain, just surprised he's taking this role. Seems like most of his choices so far have had a little more artistic merit. Must have been a good payday, or Cruise turned on the charm to talk him into it, or both.

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