Ever since the Swedish film version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo got a rapturous reception, most of the attention has been on what actress Noomi Rapace would do next, with fewer following the exploits of the main actor in the film, Michael Nyqvist.
While the Swede has recently completed filming on the Taylor Lautner thriller, Adbuction, he’s now scored what’s undoubtedly his biggest role yet, as one of the lead villains in Mission Impossible IV. THR confirms the news, although as always with M:I IV, there’s no details on the plot or the role Nyqvist will be playing.
Indeed all we know so far is that newbies Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton and Vladimir Mashkov will join old hands Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg in the film, and that it’ll be somewhat transitional, setting up the franchise to continue without Cruise. Brad Bird is directing, with a December 2011 release planned.