Tom Cruise has lit the fuse at the Super Bowl with a new look at Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.
The feature is the eighth (and possibly final?) installment for Cruise in the long-running franchise, which dates back to 1996’s Mission: Impossible and which has become known for an increasingly ambitious series of stunts.
For almost a decade, the signature stunt of a Mission movie has been teased for upwards of a year in advance, such as Cruise hanging off the side of a plane for Rogue Nation, performing a HALO skydive for Fallout or jumping a motorbike off a cliff for Dead Reckoning. This time, the stunt has been kept under wraps until much closer to the release of the film, with Cruise revealing on Feb. 7 that one stunt involved him hanging off of an upside down propeller plane.
Christopher McQuarrie, Cruise’s right-hand man since 2015’s Rogue Nation, is back helming this installment.
Hayley Atwell, Esai Morales, Henry Czerny, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Pom Klementieff, Vanessa Kirby, Hannah Waddingham, Nick Offerman, Katy O’Brian and Tramell Tillman are among the cast.
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning arrives May 23, 2025. Cruise has been coy about if this will indeed be his final installment. In recent years, he suggested he would like to play Ethan Hunt into his 80s. But more recently he has been noncommital. “You gotta see the movie,” Cruise told Empire when asked if it was the final installment for him. “It’s a hard thing for me to discuss at the moment, because it really is something that you have to experience.”
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