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David Fincher on Mission: Impossible 3? By Jack, (DT) April 17, 2002 11:06 AM PT

(Guardian) - Fresh from his success with The Panic Room, David Fincher looks set to direct the third Mission: Impossible outing later this year, with Tom Cruise again in the leading role. Cruise is believed to have instrumental in securing Fincher for the job, having been impressed by the director's technical prowess and distinctive visual panache. The Paramount production is tentatively slated as the studio's big release in the summer of 2004. Details of the script remain under wraps. But speaking in London during promotional work for The Panic Room, Fincher described the central concept as "a really cool idea, really violent." Fincher, of course, is no stranger to screen violence, having already put audiences through the mill with his anguished serial-killer thriller Seven and the bare-knuckle assaults of 1999's Fight Club. What's more surprising is why Fincher would sign on to direct a sequel to a major studio franchise after suffering such a painful time on his first movie, Alien 3. Having seen his original vision compromised, he later swore never to direct another sequel for a major studio. Now he seems more philosophical. "You can never make exactly the movie you want to make," he admits. "But if [Paramount] let us do even half of what we want, it should make for a pretty interesting film."