August 22, 2001
Tom Cruise, who played a top-secret agent in the "Mission: Impossible" movies, will join forces with to-secret swinger Austin Powers, according to The New York Post.

A draft of the upcoming "Austin Powers III" has Cruise playing a spy who gives Mike Myers' character a helping hand, while at the same time sending up his "Mission: Impossible" role.

No one has yet been cast as the villain (does this mean Dr. Evil is out?), and producers are trying to line up original James Bond Sean Connery to portray Myers' father, The Post said.