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Michael Nyqvist, who played journalist Mikael Blomkvist in
the Swedish series "The Millennium Trilogy" including “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and its sequels, will
play one of the lead villains in Paramount’s Mission: Impossible 4.
The movie, being directed by Brad Bird, has slowly been
pulling together its cast, with new faces Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton and
Vladimir Mashkov joining Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg in the action
movie.
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.The production is scouting locations in Vancouver, Prague
and Dubai for a December 2011 release.
