Impossible 8 Adds Angela Bassett to Cast

EXCLUSIVE: Angela Bassett is ready for another one missionDeadline can be revealed exclusively.

In Mission: Impossible 8Bassett reprises her role as CIA Director Erika Sloane from 2018 Mission: Impossible – Fallout.

The plot of the new film from Paramount Pictures and Skydance remains under wraps. Most recently, it received several Oscar nominations and grossed over $567 million worldwide Mission: Impossible – Dead ReckoningThe focus of the spy action franchise is, of course, Tom Cruise’s “Impossible Missions” Force agent Ethan Hunt, who sets out with his team on various world travel missions to avert a global catastrophe.

In addition to Cruise, the returning cast also includes Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Vanessa Kirby, Mariela Garriga, Henry Czerny, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell and Frederick Schmidt. Others do theirs Mission: Impossible Debutants in the eighth installment include Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Katy O’Brian and Stephen Oyoung.

Christopher McQuarrie returns to direct from his own script and produces alongside Cruise, with David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger and Chris Brock serving as executive producers. The film is scheduled to hit theaters on May 23, 2025.

Bassett currently plays LAPD patrol sergeant Athena Grant on the ABC series 9-1-1which returned for its eighth season in September. As for the film, the honorary Oscar and Emmy winner was last seen opposite Millie Bobby Brown in the fantasy film maidwhich was Netflix’s most-watched film in the first half of this year.

The actress lends her voice to Laika’s upcoming animated film Wildwood and will soon be seen alongside Robert De Niro in Netflix’s political thriller series Zero day.

Bassett is repped by Gersh, Lighthouse Entertainment and Fox Rothschild.