Mission: Impossible 6 just added one of our favourite American Horror Story regulars to its cast.

Deadline reports that Angela Bassett will star in the action sequel as the CIA director, alongside Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt, marking her second big blockbuster she's worked on this year.

Bassett will also be seen in Marvel's Black Panther as Wakandan prince T'Challa's (Chadwick Boseman) mother Ramonda, known as The Queen Mother of the fictional African nation. She's recently finishing filming on the Marvel outing.

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Bassett starts work on Mission: Impossible 6 next week and joins Superman himself, Henry Cavill, and The Crown star Vanessa Kirby on the sequel, alongside returning cast members Rebecca Ferguson, Alec Baldwin and Ving Rhames.

Director Christopher McQuarrie revealed last month that work had started on Mission: Impossible 6, which apparently features the craziest Ethan Hunt stunt yet.

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"What Tom is doing in this movie I believe will top anything that's come before. It is absolutely unbelievable – he's been training for a year," teased Skydance CEO David Ellison.

"It is going to be, I believe, the most impressive and unbelievable thing that Tom Cruise has done in a movie, and he has been working on it since right after Rogue Nation came out. It's gonna be mind-blowing."

We'll have to wait until Mission: Impossible 6 hits cinemas on July 27, 2018 to find out just what that is.

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