He was part of the cast for Tinker Tailor Solider Spy, and now Simon McBurney is looking to join the big leagues of international espionage. He’s in negotiations to join the cast of **Mission: Impossible 5.
Christopher McQuarrie is calling the shots on the latest outing for Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his increasingly improbable escapades. No plot details have leaked about the new movie, but there is a distinctly more European and African feel to this one, with shooting already underway in Vienna, Morocco and elsewhere.
We do know that Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames and Jeremy Renner are returning and that there are new arrivals in the shape of Alec Baldwin, Sean Harris and Rebecca Ferguson. Quite what role McBurney will tackle is still under wraps, though according to Variety, he’s set as Ferguson’s boss. Given that we don’t know her role, that’s not much to go on.
The fifth Mission: Impossible will land on December 26 next year. McBurney, meanwhile, has Stephen Hawking story **The Theory Of Everything **due on January 1.