Paramount has taken the obvious step of replacing Tom Cruise with Brad Pitt for Mission Impossible IV: Convincing the world straight men can have sex with other men and still consider themselves straight. Sure it’s a wordy title but Brad wants to ensure he’ll be viewed in a completely different light as an actor in the MI series.

There’s no word yet on whether the story will include Tom Cruise’s character, Ethan Hunt, or if they’ll just mention that he’s retired to live in safety with his new wife. I vote they have him killed off by a pack of rabid gerbils.

The studio bosses are apparently thinking about offering Brad Pitt over $40 million, making that the single biggest fee ever paid to an actor for one film and if he accepts their proposal, he will become the highest-paid actor in Hollywood history.

Brad reacts to the news.

You’d dress up in a skirt and do your happy dance to if you found out you’d be getting over $40 million for one movie. Okay, maybe you wouldn’t, but I sure as hell would. Well, maybe I’d skip the skirt part, but still I’d be doing my happy dance, which kind of resembles an epileptic seizure, with less rhythm.