‘Mission: Impossible 5’ Taps New Writer

THR:

Will Staples will write the script for the fifth installment in the Tom Cruise action franchise, which is slated for release on Dec. 25, 2015.

Paramount, Skydance and Tom Cruise have tapped Will Staples to work on the script for the fifth Mission: Impossible.

Christopher McQuarrie is attached to direct the film, which will see the return of Cruise as Ethan Hunt. Paramount has slated it for release on Dec. 25, 2015.