Cruise takes on another 'Mission Impossible'

Tom Cruise is starring in another impossible mission.

Paramount Pictures announced that Cruise will be back in front of the camera for 'Mission: Impossible IV', due in US cinemas by May 2011.

Cruise and 'Mission: Impossible III' director J.J. Abrams previously agreed to produce a fourth movie in the action franchise.

But it had not been known if Cruise would star again.

Abrams will stick to producing this time, with the search on for a director to shoot the new instalment.

Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec are writing the script, based on a story idea from Cruise and Abrams.

The movie reunites Cruise and Paramount, which cut the actor loose from a long-term development deal in 2006.