EXCLUSIVE: After wowing along with her muscular flip in A24’s Love Lies Bleeding, Kaity O’Brian has joined the forged of the eighth Mission: Inconceivable for Paramount Footage and Skydance, sources inform Deadline.
Particulars as to the plot of the newest spy actioner within the collection stay beneath wraps, as does her function. But it surely follows up Mission: Inconceivable – Useless Reckoning, which grossed over $567MM worldwide final summer time and landed a pair of Oscar nominations for Finest Sound and Visible Results.
The Mission: Inconceivable movies heart on Cruise’s Inconceivable Missions Drive agent Ethan Hunt, who together with his workforce, has launched into assorted globe-trotting missions to avert world catastrophe. Along with Cruise, Ving Rhames, Henry Czerny, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Hayley Atwell, Shea Whigham, and Pom Klementieff are anticipated to reprise. Different newcomers to the franchise aboard for the eighth movie, as beforehand reported, embrace Holt McCallany, Nick Offerman, Janet McTeer and Hannah Waddingham.
Christopher McQuarrie has returned to direct from his personal script and is producing alongside Cruise, with David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger and Chris Brock serving as exec producers. Whereas M:I8 had at one level been checked out as a franchise ender, McQuarrie has advised in interviews during the last 12 months that this won’t be the top of the street for Hunt and workforce. Beforehand set to debut on June twenty eighth of this 12 months, the title will now bow on Could 23, 2025 given delays amid the actor’s strike.
O’Brian stars reverse Kristen Stewart in Rose Glass’s Love Lies Bleeding, a romantic thriller that garnered rave opinions in its world premiere at Sundance earlier than occurring to a large launch earlier this month. Showcasing the athletic chops she’ll maybe be bringing to Mission: Inconceivable, the movie follows her aspiring bodybuilder Jackie as she strikes to rural Nevada and falls in love with an worker at her new native gymnasium, there being launched to the chaotic and damaging world of steroids.
Additionally identified for her roles as Comms Officer Elia Kane on Disney+’s The Mandalorian and Freedom Fighter Jentorra in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, the actress’s different TV credit embrace The Rookie, Magnum P.I., Brokers of S.H.I.E.L.D., Westworld, The Strolling Useless and Z Nation, to call a number of. Up subsequent, she’ll be seen starring reverse Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell in Common Footage’ Twisters, a sequel to the 1996 cult traditional Tornado, which releases on July 19.
O’Brian is repped by Gersh, Luber Roklin Leisure, RCM Expertise & Administration, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.