Paramount has just sent over the official teaser trailer for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol on the heels of the shoddy French bootleg that garnered so much attention over the weekend. Tom Cruise returns to his Ethan Hunt character popularized by the previous three installments with this fourth entry produced by J.J. Abrams and directed by Brad Bird (The Incredibles) who’s making his live action debut.
I have also received the first synopsis for the film, which goes like this:
The IMF is shut down when it’s implicated in a global terrorist bombing plot. Ghost Protocol is initiated and Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his rogue new team (Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton and Simon Pegg) must go undercover to clear their organization’s name. No help, no contact, off the grid. You have never seen a mission grittier and more intense than this.
The trailer will likely give you a few more clues as to what to expect, especially in terms of stunt work as the action from Dubai’s Burj Khalifa is clearly a focal point late in this teaser.
If you plan on catching Transformers: Dark of the Moon in theaters this week you will see the trailer then, but for now check it out directly below and I’ve also added the 23 images from the film to our gallery, which you can browse right here.
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is set to hit theaters on December 16 and along with Cruise stars Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton, Vladimir Mashkov, Michael Nyqvist, Josh Holloway, Simon Pegg, Lea Seydoux and Anil Kapoor.
