Tom Cruise to star in Fourth Mission Impossible

Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider has received a confirmation from Paramount Pictures that Tom Cruise is indeed attached to star in Mission Impossible IV.  DeadlineHollywood.com initially reported this story.

Cruise and J.J. Abrams, who directed the Mission: Imposible 3, will produce MI4, which is scheduled to debut over Memorial Day weekend in 2011.  Paramount has hired Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec, who previously worked with Abrams on his ABC drama Alias, to write the script.

Cruise's latest film is Knight & Day, due in July.