It seems there won’t just be one villain in Mission: Impossible IV, but a whole team of them, as while Dragon Tattoo star Michael Myqvist was recently announced as the big bad, two more evildoers have now signed on, with Léa Seydoux and Anil Kapoor added into the mix. It really is starting to seem like Team America versus the rest of the world!
THR confirms that Seydoux, best known for Robin hood and Inglourious Basterds, will be the main villainess opposite Nyqvist, while Deadline says that Slumdog Millionaire’s Anil Kapoor will have integral supporting role and ‘has been cast as a major heavy’ in the movie. They later updated this to say that the official Paramount line is that Kapoor won’t be a baddie, but Deadline still seems to think he won’t be on Tom Cruise’s side.
The film has just started shooting, with Brad Bird directing. Joining Cruise on the good guy side are Josh Holloway Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton, Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg. M:I IV is due in cinemas December 2011