Mission Impossible 4 - Ghost Protocol - Official Trailer

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (also known as Mission: Impossible IV) is an upcoming action film, and the fourth film in the Mission: Impossible series. It stars Tom Cruise, who reprises his role of IMF Agent Ethan Hunt, and is director Brad Bird's first live-action film. Ghost Protocol was written by Christopher McQuarrie, André Nemec, Josh Appelbaum, and J.J. Abrams, and produced by Cruise, J.J. Abrams (director of the third film) and Bryan Burk.

The film will be released in the United States and Canada on December 21, 2011. It is the first Mission: Impossible film not to be produced by Paula Wagner, and the first that will be released in IMAX theatres.

When a terrorist bombing destroys the Kremlin, the United States government initiates a black ops "ghost protocol" and disavows the entire Impossible Mission Force. Ethan Hunt and his team are to be blamed for the attack, but are allowed to escape as part of a plan to enable them to operate in the dark, outside of their agency. However, Hunt is warned that if any member of his team is captured during their mission, they will be charged as terrorists planning to incite global nuclear war. Ethan is then forced to work with ex-IMF agent Brandt, who knows more about Hunt and his past than even Hunt himself.

* Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt
* Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell
* Jeremy Renner as Brandt
* Josh Holloway as Trevor Hanaway
* Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn
* Tom Wilkinson as IMF leader
* Paula Patton as Jane Carter
* Anil Kapoor as Brij Nath
* Michael Nyqvist as the film's secondary male antagonist
* Léa Seydoux as the film's main female antagonist
* Vladimir Mashkov as a Russian secret agent
* Samuli Edelmann as an antagonist

The film was originally announced with a working name of Mission: Impossible 4, and codenamed "Aries" during early production. Rumors initially mentioned that the film might not even carry the Mission: Impossible name, though this was later discounted.

Principal photography began by September 30, 2010. Pictures of the set were leaked to the internet showing Cruise in a Russian officer disguise. Filming took place in Dubai, Prague, Moscow, Mumbai, and Vancouver. The film was partially shot with IMAX cameras.

The first full, official trailer was released on June 29, 2011, and attached to Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The official poster for the film was released on yahoo movies on September 9, 2011.

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