Update: Paramount has now confirmed this news to be official.Deadline has, presumably, the final the word on Tom Cruise’s *Mission: Impossible**4co-star (Brad Bird is still set to direct). His new co-star in the fourth entry in the Mission](Mission: Impossible (1996) - Movie | Moviefone):Impossible *franchise won’t be Kevin Zegers, Christopher Egan, and Anthony Mackie, actors mentioned earlier this week in connection with the third sequel in the M:I franchise. Executives at Paramount Pictures have decided against a younger, lesser-known co-star who, if box office returns and Cruise’s potential unavailability, warranted, could pick up the mantle for future entries in the *M:I *franchise. That actor? None other than Jeremy Renner.
Renner has been around for the better part of a decade, usually in supporting roles, but catapulted to leading man status (if not quite the A-list) with his Oscar-nominated turn in last year’s Best Picture winner, *The Hurt Locker *(Kathryn Bigelow also won Best Director). Renner is set to co-star as Hawkeye in Joss Whedon’s *The Avengers *(set for a May 4, 2012 release), but *The Avengers *doesn’t start production until early next year.Filed under: Action, Thrillers, Casting, Paramount, Tom Cruise
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