The latest film in the “Mission: Impossible” series will be called “Ghost Protocol,” Hollywood star Tom Cruise revealed in Dubai Thursday.

“It’s not gonna be MI 2, MI 3, MI 4, but it’s gonna be ‘Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol’ … that will be the title of this film,” Cruise told a news conference in the Gulf city-state.

“One of the things that I always wanted with the franchise was for it to not have a number afterwards, because I haven’t made sequels of films, and I never really thought of these films as sequels,” Cruise said.

“When you see each one of them, I think it’s distinctive of each filmmaker” who worked on the series, the actor added.

“It’s a series that I love doing,” Cruise said.

Paramount Pictures said the latest in the series that has grossed $2 billion worldwide is currently shooting in Dubai, and would also be filmed in Moscow, Prague and Vancouver.

“Ghost Protocol” will be in theaters in December 2011, Paramount said.