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Tom Cruise returns for ‘The Final Reckoning’ in the first action-packed film

Online Niel November 12, 2024

The title of Tom Cruise’s eighth film “Mission: Impossible” has finally been revealed, along with the first trailer.

“The Final Reckoning” is now the official title for “Mission: Impossible 8,” which was originally supposed to be the “Part Two” of 2023’s “Dead Reckoning.” It is slated for release on May 23, 2025. The film was originally scheduled for 2022, but was postponed several times by the pandemic and the SAG-AFTRA actors’ strike.

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Cruise unveiled the title and a poster on Monday morning, along with the caption “Every choice led to this.”

In the action-packed trailer, Cruise dives and explores a wrecked submarine, flies and falls from a biplane, and runs a lot. Angela Bassett is also revealed to be back as CIA Director Erika Sloane, after first appearing in ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’.

In “Dead Reckoning,” Cruise’s Ethan Hunt faces a dangerous AI program called The Entity that seems to predict his every move and could wreak havoc if it falls into the wrong hands. After escaping a calamitous train accident at the end of the film, Ethan realizes that the Entity is hidden aboard an old Russian submarine, but an enemy from Ethan’s past named Gabriel (Esai Morales) is also after him .

Morales returns for the upcoming film, alongside Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Kirby, Pom Klementieff, Shea Whigham, Henry Czerny, Greg Tarzan Davis, Mariela Garriga and Indira Varma. Newcomers to the franchise include Hannah Waddingham, Janet McTeer, Holt McCallany, Katy O’Brian, Nick Offerman and Tramell Tillman.

Christopher McQuarrie returns 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 screenplay is written by McQuarrie, Bruce Geller and Erik Jendresen. Cruise and McQuarrie are producing. Chris Brock, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Tommy Gormley, Don Granger and Susan Novick executive produce with Gina Hallas co-producing.

Watch the trailer below.