Mission: Impossible
Upon completion of "Shaun of the Dead", Pegg was questioned as to whether he would be abandoning the British film industry for Hollywood, and he replied, "It's not like we're going to go away and do, I don't know, "Mission: Impossible III"", picking the title of an imaginary blockbuster. When the film ' was subsequently made, Pegg appeared in it as Benji Dunn, an IMF technician who assists Tom Cruise's character Ethan Hunt. He reprised the role in three further "Mission: Impossible" sequel films: ' (2011), ' (2015), and ' (2018).