As the fifth installment of the "Mission: Impossible" franchise heads to the theaters, a new trailer mashup featuring NBA basketball player Chris Paul has surfaced and it's hilarious.
According to Fansided, to bring more fanfare into the upcoming film release, ESPN has called on the Los Angeles Clippers superstar Chris Paul. The footage that runs for 30 seconds shows a funnier side of the 30-year-old NBA player.
In the beginning of the clip, we see the stars of the movie racing through the streets in high-speed motorcycles and it cuts to Chris Paul who looks completely distraught as his bike won't start.
"Ethan! This thing won't star," says Paul and it returns to him sitting on the bike and walking it to move off the screen.
The next sequence shows the NBA player getting into a car that's part of a car chase. He sits in the back seat trying to balance his coffee and when the car goes off the cliff, a movie character says to him, "Do you have your seatbelt on?" and when the car zooms into the air, Chris flails his arms and screams for his life.
The third and last situation was in a plane about to take off. The original trailer shows Tom Cruise hanging onto the side of the plane asking his IT genius colleague to open the door. But in the mashup, Cruise says to open the door but Paul looks out from inside the plane refusing to do so because "the seatbelt light is on."
The film, "Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" is directed by Christopher McQuarrie and has been scheduled to premiere in cinemas July 31. Cruise' co-stars include the likes of Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, and Ving Rhames.
Rogue Nation Plot & Summary
The fifth film follows the events of the previous installment, 2011's "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol." In the film, we see Ethan Hunt and the rest of his team face the possibility of complete agency disbandment.
As summarized by Inquirer.net, Hunt has uncovered that The Syndicate - an impenetrable, highly-skilled group of renegade spies, have a plan to throw the world into chaos. What has been merely whispered as a myth among spies turns out to be real and making the job even more difficult, the rest of the world remains oblivious or simply in denial.
Below is the mashup trailer along with the "Mission: Impossible -- Rogue Nation" official trailer:
