Angela Bassett, Henry Cavill Look Sharp In New Mission: Impossible - Fallout Photo
We wouldn't want to get on these two's bad sides.
A new photo from the upcoming Tom Cruise-starring action romp Mission: Impossible – Fallout has cropped up online, and it features a promising look at franchise fresh faces Angela Bassett and Henry Cavill.
The snap first surfaced on The Graham Norton Show, but quickly made its way to Twitter. (You know how speedy social media is when it comes to obtaining hot-off-the-press movie promos.) Leading star Cruise, who stars as Ethan Hunt, later shared the pic on his own Twitter account.
In it the photo, we see Bassett's character, the yet-unnamed director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Cavill's equally mysterious man walking around the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. The City of Love is, of course, just one of the numerous locales the Mission: Impossible – Fallout story will take viewers. Fans will also see action-packed sequences play out in places like London, India, and New Zealand.
Check out the new photo below.
This is the third bit of Mission: Impossible-related news to break this week. Cruise previously revealed the film's title as Mission: Impossible – Fallout, with director Christopher McQuarrie then explaining the reason behind the name. "The title has multiple meanings in the film, from the literal to the figurative. There is the threat of nuclear terrorism hanging over the movie, which is the literal threat. There's the notion that what's happened in the movie is the end result of choices that Ethan Hunt has made in his life. It's Ethan's past come back to haunt him. It's the fallout of all his good intentions," he told Empire. "The one thing that came out of it was I thought it should be a one-word title. This is a different kind of movie; it should be expressing a different attitude. It should be striking its own ground, and that's what I felt 'Fallout' did."
Shortly after the name confirmation, Cruise appeared on The Graham Norton Show to reveal some grisly footage of himself injured while filming the new flick. The actor was set to perform a stunt that required him to jump from one building to another, but he missed the landing by just a bit, hit the second building at an angle, and broke his ankle. "I'm wearing two wires," Cruise said. "They're basically just safety wires because I go at a full tilt, and I'm sprinting as hard as I can and I hit the side of the wall and that's the stunt." He added that the bone is still broken, but he's "doing well."
Joining Bassett, Cavill, and Cruise for the film are Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust, Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell, Simon Pegg as Benjamín "Benji" Dunn, Michelle Monaghan as Julia Meade-Hunt, Alec Baldwin as Secretary Alan Hunley, and Sean Harris as Solomon Lane. Sian Brooke, Vanessa Kirby, and Frederick Schmidt also star. Here's the quick plot rundown: "The best intentions often come back to haunt you. Mission: Impossible – Fallout finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team (Alec Baldwin, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames) along with some familiar allies (Rebecca Ferguson, Michelle Monaghan) in a race against time after a mission gone wrong. Henry Cavill, Angela Bassett, and Vanessa Kirby also join the dynamic cast with filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie returning to the helm."
Mission: Impossible – Fallout is due out on July 27.
— Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) January 27, 2018