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AICN EXCLUSIVE!! Look Who's Writing MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 3!!

Hey folks, Harry here with Quint's scoop regarding Darabont and M:I 3. Not really sure what to make of this, except that well... Darabont is a damn great writer and that Joe Carnahan is going to kick in teeth with this film... well, that's my wager anyways. Here's Quint....

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with some good news for all of us who were burned by the fatally retarded MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2! I planted a bug in the Linda Blair bobble-head on Sherry Lansing's desk last week and it has already yielded some groovy info!

Turns out none other than Frank Darabont has been coerced into scripting M:I3, with Tom Cruise (of course) starring. Maybe it's a pay check, maybe it's a mercy scripting... I know I felt terrible for all involved in M:I2... Maybe he's excited by the direction new director Joe Carnahan is going or maybe Cruise worked some of his Scientology voo-doo on him. No matter what the scenario Darabont has proven he knows how to write good material.

I'm excited by the news because I really did dig the first MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE flick and I want the series to be successful... But if Darabont takes time to do this, does that mean I have to wait even that much longer for his take on Bradbury's brilliant FAHRENHEIT 451 or King's equally brilliant (in a B-grade drive in sorta way) THE MIST?

I better get running, squirts! This news should be hitting the trades in the next week or so! Remember who told ya' first!

-Quint

email: Email Quint here! He'll get back to you just as soon as he returns from picking his feet in Poughkeepsie!!!












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by KID AB
06:21:32 AM EST
on March 22, 2004
Ah, yes...
by Bruce Leroy
06:25:18 AM EST
on March 22, 2004
Closet to first Ive ever been ... what did ppl think of the new VAN HELSING trailer?
by jigga422
06:26:48 AM EST
on March 22, 2004
I blame Tom Cruise
by pogo on my own
06:37:30 AM EST
on March 22, 2004
Darabont will undoubtedly knock out a quality script, Carnahan will like it, Cruise will like it, then out of nowhere, as if by magic, George Lucas will appear and proceed to piss on said script, and set it on fire.
by Coatsy UK
06:43:52 AM EST
on March 22, 2004
MI2 was good!!
by chunkus
07:05:06 AM EST
on March 22, 2004
M:I2 was not that bad
by Lethal Waffle
07:05:34 AM EST
on March 22, 2004
Don't blame John Woo. Blame America!
by CellarDoor
07:12:53 AM EST
on March 22, 2004
just as long as....
by satansteve
07:13:58 AM EST
on March 22, 2004
MI2 was goo.. wait.. it sucked!!
by quantum_ken
07:27:01 AM EST
on March 22, 2004
As long as its a new slant!
by Pjdonnelli
07:35:14 AM EST
on March 22, 2004
Leave MI2 alone!
by Northerner82
07:38:42 AM EST
on March 22, 2004
Sorry pressed enter by mistake
by Pjdonnelli
07:42:22 AM EST
on March 22, 2004
PG-13 sucks ass!!!
by godoffireinhell
07:43:08 AM EST
on March 22, 2004
WTF?
by Drunken Rage
07:43:10 AM EST
on March 22, 2004
Fuck Tom Cruise, Fuck Him Up His Stupid, Well-Fucked, Arse.
by Regicidal_Maniac
08:46:42 AM EST
on March 22, 2004
Isn't he busy?
by ChickenGeorgeVII
08:57:10 AM EST
on March 22, 2004
I never fully recovered from M:I:2. Bleahhh. Literally the worst Hollywood movie ever................. Allow me to elaborate
by TheGingerTwit
09:50:28 AM EST
on March 22, 2004
Frank Darabont? I'm supposed to be excited by this?
by NiceMarmot
01:13:38 PM EST
on March 22, 2004
MI:2 was terrible
by 007-11
05:47:35 PM EST
on March 22, 2004
John Woo
by TS Thomas
06:38:22 PM EST
on March 22, 2004
So Frank Darabont is now writing MEMEME:3? Good news. Can't wait for the long-awaited prison-rape sequence where Ethan Hunt gets shawshanked in the shower.
by Frietag
07:10:51 PM EST
on March 22, 2004
The World Is Not Waiting For This
by Jervis Tetch
07:40:12 PM EST
on March 22, 2004
if Darabont is writing it we can at least count on it being almost 3 hours in length
by inkymae
07:43:39 PM EST
on March 22, 2004
I hate you all
by MisterBlonde
07:56:46 PM EST
on March 22, 2004
No superhuman abilites or Cruise flowing hair shots this time please.
by Darksider
08:58:20 PM EST
on March 22, 2004
No, no no. Fuck MI3 any motherfucker could write it. Darabont needs to get his ass on finishing Indy and then doing The Mist, dammit!
by Big Bad Clone
08:58:45 PM EST
on March 22, 2004
Getting DePalma back wouldn't hurt either.
by Darksider
09:03:38 PM EST
on March 22, 2004
MI2 Rocks!!
by cruisefan555
09:37:52 PM EST
on March 22, 2004
You forgot this about M:I 2. . .
by ranting_dude
09:52:53 PM EST
on March 22, 2004
Tom Crooz
by SPlissken
09:57:44 PM EST
on March 22, 2004
Does anyone want this movie? The second one was pretty lame.
by minderbinder
10:04:56 PM EST
on March 22, 2004
Woo
by BillEmic
10:37:06 PM EST
on March 22, 2004
All PG-13 action movies suck...?
by Osmosis Jones
11:03:21 PM EST
on March 22, 2004
M:I 2 retarded?
by Louis P.
11:27:23 PM EST
on March 22, 2004
"Do we really need another kick?.. Lets just call it kickin' impossible"
by MaulRat
12:54:25 AM EST
on March 23, 2004
MI2 kicked ass!
by EatU2xx
02:15:23 AM EST
on March 23, 2004
MI2 too
by kafka07
07:55:01 AM EST
on March 23, 2004
more AMAZON links, please
by ATARI
09:06:49 AM EST
on March 23, 2004
I see Tom Cruise invading Iraq to free the last remaining Soldiers from Saddams Savagely Evil henchmen, while all the Iraqi ladies and children throw Chockolate and roses thanking the great Americans (In English with iraqi accents)
by TheGingerTwit
10:45:45 AM EST
on March 23, 2004
And the love interest will be a 5 foot mirror. and it'll still be taller than him.
by TheGingerTwit
10:46:03 AM EST
on March 23, 2004
I think they should call it Mission: Ridiculous with Hulk Hogan as the voice on the tape
by Lord Shatner
01:19:42 PM EST
on March 23, 2004
M:I 2 Sucked... 'nuff said
by BubbleWrap
01:26:32 PM EST
on March 23, 2004
you know at one point
by judderman
02:11:01 PM EST
on March 23, 2004
Believe me, the first M:I wasn't all that...
by Aston Lad
03:22:43 PM EST
on March 23, 2004
MI2...lots of boring slow motion cliches
by ScreamingPenis
04:53:48 PM EST
on March 23, 2004
Only on an AICN talkback....
by Pontsing Barset
05:31:17 PM EST
on March 23, 2004
DANCE OF THE DEAD
by TomVee
05:48:25 PM EST
on March 23, 2004
Frank Darabont never met a cliche he didn't like
by Carson Dyle
07:36:11 PM EST
on March 23, 2004
MI2
by DominicVobiscum
08:38:44 PM EST
on March 23, 2004
Aw, man
by BillEmic
11:38:56 PM EST
on March 23, 2004
re: The original series
by Gislef_crow
11:49:22 PM EST
on March 23, 2004
Bullet in the Head
by BillEmic
12:48:52 AM EST
on March 24, 2004
Amazon kickbacks?
by KryptonsLastSon
12:49:20 AM EST
on March 24, 2004
MI2 was one of the worst movies I sat through in the theater
by Jon E Cin
07:49:27 PM EST
on March 24, 2004
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