Mission: Impossible 5 Gets Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hawke on Another Globetrotting Assignment from IMF
Paramount Pictures' Mission: Impossible 5 is set for release on December 25. The fifth installment in the franchise is being directed by Christopher McQuarrie from a screenplay written by Drew Pearce and Will Staples. Tom Cruise which is co-producing the project, returns as star, reprising his role of IMF agent and main movie protagonist Ethan Hunt.
Joining Cruise in the Mission: Impossible 5 cast are Jeremy Renner as William Brandt, Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn, Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell, Paula Patton as Jane Carter, along with Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Alec Baldwin, Zhang Jingchu, Simon McBurney, Leo Atkins, Stella Stocker, Asim Ahmad, Mingus Johnston, Ulli Ackerman, Rupert Wickham, Robert Maaser, and Ait ben Azzouz Brahim in still undisclosed roles. While her character in the film has not yet been revealed, Rebecca Ferguson will reportedly be playing the female lead and Cruise's romantic interest in Mission: Impossible 5. However, it's already known that Simon McBurney will play the role of her boss in the film. On the other hand, Alec Baldwin is rumored to play the head of CIA in the fifth installment in the long-running franchise. Sean Harris will reportedly play the movie's big bad.
Filming for Mission: Impossible 5 began in Vienna, Austria, in August. From there, the shooting location was moved to Morocco. On September 28, the venue was shifted to London, including within the vicinity of the House of Parliament, where Cruise and Ferguson were spotted on the set by reporters and paparazzi. On December 2, Cruise was almost hit by a double decker bus while filming a scene at a London street. Most recently, the cast and crew were reportedly spotted filming at the Cayman Islands.
The Mission: Impossible film franchise series started in 1996 with Brian De Palma directing the first movie. The fourth in the series, Ghost Protocol, was the most critically acclaimed and most commercially successful in the series. The movie franchise is based on the long-running hit television series of the same name created by Bruce Geller which aired from 1966 to 1973 and again from 1988 to 1990.