CRUISE TRIBUTE TO INCLUDE 'MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE'
DEC 17-20 INCLUDES CAREER DISCUSSION AT LINCOLN CENTER IN NEW YORK
Tom Cruise will discuss his film career with the New York Film Festival's director of programming,
Kent Jones, at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's
An Evening with Tom Cruise on Monday, December 17. The conversation will be followed by a preview screening of
Jack Reacher, the potential Cruise franchise vehicle-starter directed by
Christopher McQuarrie that opens in theaters that following Friday. In between those days, the
Tom Cruise tribute continues with seven films programmed by
Scott Foundas, including
Brian De Palma's
Mission: Impossible, which will screen at 6:30pm on Thursday, December 20. The other films are
Tony Scott's
Top Gun,
Paul Brickman's
Risky Business,
Barry Levinson's
Rain Man,
Oliver Stone's
Born On The Fourth Of July,
Cameron Crowe's
Jerry Maguire, and
Ed Zwick's
The Last Samurai.
Last month,
Deadline's Mike Fleming Jr. posted that McQuarrie will direct the fifth
Mission: Impossible film, which will be produced by Cruise and
JJ Abrams. Writers were still to be hired for the project, according to Fleming, but it would seem likely that McQuarrie himself would be involved in the writing, as he has written every film he has directed so far, including the screenplay adaptation of
Jack Reacher, from the
Lee Child novel
One Shot. McQuarrie also co-wrote the screenplay for
Valkyrie, which starred Cruise and was directed by
Bryan Singer.