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Ethan Matthew Hunt is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Mission: Impossible film series. He is portrayed by Tom Cruise . The character of Ethan Hunt is a highly skilled field agent and operative for the Impossible Missions Force (IMF), a secret government agency that handles dangerous and high-stakes missions.
Mission: Impossible is a series of American action spy films, based on the 1966 TV series created by Bruce Geller.The series is mainly produced by Tom Cruise, who plays Ethan Hunt, an agent of the Impossible Mission Force (IMF).
IMF agent Ethan Hunt is retired from fieldwork and has settled down, with his fiancée, nurse Julia Meade, who is unaware of his job training recruits. IMF Director of Operations John Musgrave approaches him about a special mission to rescue one of his protégés, Lindsey Farris, who was captured while investigating arms dealer Owen Davian.
He kills three of his own agents, fakes his death, and frames teammate Ethan Hunt as a mole. During a confrontation atop a train traveling through the Channel Tunnel, Hunt kills Phelps by blowing up a helicopter on which Phelps is trying to escape. Hunt subsequently becomes the new team leader. [58]
In the film, Ethan Hunt (Cruise) seeks to uncover who framed him for the murders of most of his Impossible Missions Force (IMF) team. Numerous efforts by Paramount Pictures to create a film adaptation of the television series stalled until Cruise founded Cruise/Wagner Productions in 1992 and decided on Mission: Impossible as its inaugural project.
It stars Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, alongside an ensemble cast including Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga and Henry Czerny. In the film, Hunt and his IMF team face off against the Entity, a powerful rogue AI.
Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt: An IMF agent and leader of a team of operatives.; Hayley Atwell as Grace: A former thief turned IMF agent and Ethan's ally. [5]Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell: An IMF computer technician, Ethan's best friend and a member of his team.
IMF agent Trevor Hanaway is killed in Budapest by assassin Sabine Moreau, who steals Russian nuclear launch codes to sell to a man named "Cobalt." IMF agent Ethan Hunt is extracted from a Moscow prison, along with an asset named Bogdan, by Hanaway's handler and girlfriend, Jane Carter, and newly-promoted field agent Benji Dunn.