LOS ANGELES — Who says you can't go home again?
Tom Cruise will reprise his role as secret agent Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible 4, according to Deadline Hollywood's Mike Fleming.
The 47-year-old Cruise will also produce the film with J.J. Abrams. A search for a director is currently underway, but Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec have signed on to write the script.
Shooting on the franchise reboot is expected to begin by summer for a Memorial Day 2011 release.
"Tom and J.J. are great talents and we are excited to be working with them to relaunch this legendary franchise," Paramount chairman and CEO Brad Grey said in a statement Tuesday.
The announcement comes after Cruise's infamous falling out with Paramount Studios after the third film in the series was released in 2006. Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone said his company's movie studio was severing ties with Cruise after 14 years because of what he described as "erratic behavior" by the star.
By 2008, Cruise and Redstone were on their way to patching up their differences after enjoying lunch together in Beverly Hills.
Cruise next stars as an international spy in Knight and Day, which hits theaters in July.
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