Last week Hayley Atwell, best known for playing Agent Peggy Carter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, teased her inclusion for Christopher McQuarrie's next installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise. Word of her boarding the action-packed series top-lined by Tom Cruise arrived courtesy of an Instagram post with a photo of Atwell on top of a Impossible Mission Force binder with the caption, "Should you choose to accept…" Shortly thereafter, Atwell responded to the tantalizing post with one of her own by saying, "Mission: Accepted. Though I’m not the sort to follow orders…" Of course, Atwell's response was promptly followed by me screaming with excitement like Jonah Hill in that famous GET HIM TO THE GREEK gif.
Following last week's announcement, Atwell has taken to Instagram once again to confirm that not only is she down to engage in a mission most impossible, she's signed on to star opposite Tom Cruise in Paramount Pictures’ upcoming MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 7 and MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 8! Little is known about either film thus far, other than that the first is expected to arrive in theaters sometime in 2021, with the second scheduled for 2022.
Returning to the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE franchise for McQuarries next installment are Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson (DOCTOR SLEEP), Simon Pegg (SHAUN OF THE DEAD) and Ving Rhames (PULP FICTION). Skydance Media will produce the next two films in the franchise, after boarding the series in 2011 for MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL.
The latest installment of the series, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT, currently holds a 97% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes; this after raking in more than $750 million at the worldwide box office. Hot damn! Who Atwell will play in the Mission: Impossible movies remains a mystery for now, though if I may, I'd love to see her star as the newest villain of the series.
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