Jeremy Renner chooses to accept he's Mission: Impossible

Jeremy Renner has confirmed that he is to replace Tom Cruise as the lead star of all future Mission: Impossible films. And all he had to do to get the gig is sacrifice his first-born to the alien scientology god Xarthu and promise never to speak to his own family ever again.

Tom Cruise's box office draw has been called into question recently, with many choosing to claim the star's popularity is fading instead of realising that he has just made a bunch of shitty movies lately. Either way, this has led to speculation that the currently filming Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol will be his last outing as an Ethan Hunt (*goes for obvious cockney rhyming slang joke*).

Now, co-star and newbie to the franchise Jeremy Renner has confirmed everyone's suspicions about his role in the movies:

Meaning that, as long as the fourth film does well, we'll see Renner following in Cruise's size 3 footsteps and carry more M:I movies forward. However, Renner doesn't do much to reassure us of the quality of the new film:

So...they haven't even got a finished script yet? And they're already filming?! I can just imagine Tom saying "Nah, don't worry about it, just hoist me 1000m in the air on this zip-wire and we'll cut together a plot in the edit" before flashing his teeth and pointing double pistol fingers.