Josh Holloway Joins Cruise/Renner MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 4 Cast

“Lost” star Josh Holloway is joining the cast of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 4 according to THR.

In his first major screen role since wrapping the ABC show, Holloway is in final negotiations to act as a member of the Impossible Mission Force, the secret agent task force headed by Tom Cruise. Story details are being kept in a self-destructable vault thus no information on Holloway’s character was available.

J.J. Abrams, who is producing with Cruise and Paula Wagner, worked on the story with scribes Andre Nemec and Josh Appelbaum, who have written the screenplay. IMPOSSIBLE will be the first studio picture for Holloway, who spent six seasons as heartthrob anti-hero Sawyer on “Lost,” which was exec produced by Abrams.

Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames will return to the Paramount Pictures’ franchise as well as newcomers Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton and Vladimir Mashkov. The Brad Bird film will begin shooting this fall in Vancouver, Prague and the recently announced Dubai.

Look for MI4 in theaters December 2011.

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