Paula Patton has landed that female lead role that Deadline told you she was testing for, alongside actresses Lauren German and Kristen Kreuk. Deadline was told that Patton will play a young operative who works with Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt character.
The film will not be called Mission: Impossible 4, as Cruise and JJ Abrams who hatched the project together always envisioned it as a reboot of the franchise.