Josh Holloway joins Mission :Impossible 4

[Jack Bauer]

Hollywood Reporter

"Lost" star Josh Holloway is joining the "Mission: Impossible" team.

In his first major screen role since wrapping the ABC show, Holloway is in final negotiations to act as a member of the Impossible Mission Force, the secret agent task force headed by Tom Cruise in Paramount's "Mission: Impossible 4."

Holloway boards the ever-growing Brad Bird-directed pic, whose cast, in addition to Cruise, already includes Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton and Vladimir Mashkov as well as franchise vets Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg.

Story details are being kept in a self-destructable vault thus no information on Holloway's character was available.

Awesome news.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Wonder if he'll give Hunt a nickname like Shorty or Couch-jumper ...

 

[Caligula]

Awesome! I just hope this time the villain, be it Holloway or whomever, doesn't turn out to be a rogue IMF agent. It's been done.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Awesome! I just hope this time the villain, be it Holloway or whomever, doesn't turn out to be a rogue IMF agent. It's been done.

In all three films- which makes it a danger that it's going to be considered a part of the series format...

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Cool, but I hope this doesn't mean he's done with TV!

Wonder if he'll give Hunt a nickname like Shorty or Couch-jumper ...

I'd go with Kool-Ade.

 

[Aragorn]

Awesome! I just hope this time the villain, be it Holloway or whomever, doesn't turn out to be a rogue IMF agent. It's been done.

Michael Nyqvist (the original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy) is the villain. Holloway is reported to be playing an IMF team member, which in addition to Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg and Paula Patton, seems to refute the rumor that this would be a Tom Cruise/Jeremy Renner buddy movie with no IMF team.

 

[Avalon]

^^^ Well -- unless they all die in the first five minutes like the first movie...

 

[auntiehill]

^ Which I can just see happening, too.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Onset photos of the Cruiser are already online.

http://www.moviehole.net/201026707-mission-impossible-4-set-pics-online

 

[Captain Craig]

Those look good.

I'm liking the Holloway casting and hoping this is as good as the last one which surprised me after MI:2 was middling.

Also, please Paramount keep the title MI:4, subtitle if you just have to but keep MI as the lead in the title.