The title for the eighth installment of Mission: Impossible has been revealed, along with the first trailer.
The Final Reckoning is now the official title for Mission: Impossible 8, originally slated to be the second part of 2023’s Dead Reckoning. It is scheduled to be released on May 23, 2025. The film was originally set for 2022 but was delayed multiple times due to the pandemic and the SAG-AFTRA actors strike.
Cruise revealed the title and a poster, with the caption “Every choice has led to this.”
In the action-packed trailer, Cruise scuba dives and explores a wrecked submarine, flies and falls out of a biplane, and does a lot of running. Angela Bassett is also returning as CIA Director Erika Sloane after she first appeared in Mission: Impossible – Fallout.
In Dead Reckoning, Cruise’s Ethan Hunt was up against The Entity, a dangerous AI program that seems to predict his every move and could cause disaster if it falls into the wrong hands. After escaping a calamitous train crash at the end of the movie, Ethan realizes The Entity is stashed aboard an old Russian submarine, but a foe from Ethan’s past named Gabriel (Esai Morales) is also on the trail.
Morales returns for the upcoming movie, in addition to Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Kirby, Pom Klementieff, Shea Whigham, Henry Czerny, Greg Tarzan Davis, Mariela Garriga, and Indira Varma. New arrivals to the franchise include Hannah Waddingham, Janet McTeer, Holt McCallany, Katy O’Brian, Nick Offerman, and Tramell Tillman.
Christopher McQuarrie is back as director and co-writer after helming Rogue Nation, Fallout, and Dead Reckoning. He previously collaborated with Cruise on the Jack Reacher franchise as well as Top Gun: Maverick. The script is written by McQuarrie, Bruce Geller, and Erik Jendresen. Cruise and McQuarrie serve as producers. Chris Brock, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Tommy Gormley, Don Granger, and Susan Novick executive produce with Gina Hallas as co-producer.
Watch the trailer below.
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