No, Glen Powell shouldn’t be the subsequent tremendous spy Ethan Hunt.
Following a report that Tom Cruise, star of the Mission: Inconceivable movie franchise, allegedly wished Powell, 36, to take over as its lead, the Twisters star denied the rumor.
Calling Powell to congratulate him reside throughout The Pat McAfee Present on Tuesday, Nov. 12, ESPN host Pat McAfee learn aloud a headline sourced on X (previously Twitter) from @TheInsneider: “Tom Cruise reportedly desires Glen Powell to switch him and lead the ‘MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE’ franchise in potential future installments.”
Powell instantly refuted the declare, quipping to McAfee, 37: “My mother would by no means let me try this.”
Referencing the damaging stunts that Cruise, 62, has pulled off for seven action-packed films, he laughed, including, “That’s a dying lure.”
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Powell’s mom Cyndy has appeared in cameos in her son’s films, enjoying a spy in Spy Children 3, a lunch woman in All people Desires Some!! and a professor in Jack & Bobby. Becoming a member of Powell to drive bikes off cliffs or cling to the outside of moving airplanes, it appears, shouldn’t be on their horizon.
The Hit Man actor has starred alongside Cruise up to now, enjoying a rival pilot in 2022’s hit High Gun: Maverick. They’re set to reunite in an upcoming sequel that was confirmed by producer Jerry Bruckheimer earlier this yr.
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Throughout a July episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast along with his Twisters costar Daisy Edgar-Jones, Powell appeared to recommend he is aware of when he’ll start filming High Gun 3. “I imply, I’ve a date,” he mentioned of when audiences can count on the upcoming undertaking.
Powell answered McAfee’s name from the set of his subsequent undertaking, the Edgar Wright-directed The Operating Man. Whereas capturing the action-packed remake of the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger film, the actor will proceed distant lessons to complete his faculty diploma on the College of Texas at Austin, he instructed IndieWire in July.
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Cruise is ready to reprise his position as heroic IMF agent Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. The franchise’s eighth installment, directed by Christopher McQuarrie, follows 2022’s Lifeless Reckoning Half One and will probably be launched in theaters Might 23, 2025.
