'Incredibles' director doing next 'Mission: Impossible'?

Brad Bird could be moving from Pixar to "Mission: Impossible IV." Heat Vision says the director of "The Incredibles" and "Ratatouille" is now a contender in the search for a director for the fourth installment in the action series, which reunites Tom Cruise with producer J.J. Abrams. The film already has a release date of May 27, 2011, and the race for a helmer is speeding up in an attempt to start shooting soon.

Ruben Fleischer ("Zombieland") and Edgar Wright ("Scott Pilgrim vs. the World") have also been in talks with Abrams, apparently. I personally like the idea of Bird doing this thing. It would mark his first live-action feature, but with "The Incredibles," he has shown he's not afraid to create superb action. And hey, that's that this franchise is now all about, right? Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec wrote the script for "IV."