Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One took a motorcycle jump off a cliff into theaters in July 2023. The film brought back Ethan Hunt for his first adventure since 2018’s Fallout. The seventh and eighth Mission: Impossible installments were filmed back-to-back and after many delays, Part One finally made it to theaters. The follow-up will pick up the story and see Hunt and his team attempt to stop the Entity. Originally titled Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, this movie is now known as Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.
Here’s everything we know about Mission: Impossible 8.
Title
The next Mission: Impossible movie has a name. As mentioned, Mission Impossible 8 is actually titled Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’s Plot
We don’t have a full plot synopsis for Mission: Impossible 8 yet, but when we left Ethan, the search for the Entity was on. He learned the name Sevastopol from Paris. That’s the Russian submarine housing the source code for the Entity. It’s the only place Ethan can stop the AI once and for all. He and his team just have to find it and access it. That’s not an easy task since the submarine is at the bottom of the ocean. We expect Ethan will grapple with Gabriel again, too. Maybe we’ll learn more about their tangled past.
So far, the only official description of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning reads, “Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.” You can check out the first trailer for the movie above and dive into it with us here.
Behind the Scenes
Christopher McQuarrie wrote and directed this eighth installment. The movie was filmed back-to-back with Dead Reckoning Part One.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’s Cast
Tom Cruise will reprise his role as Ethan Hunt. Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, and Hayley Atwell will be back, too. Though the others from Part One aren’t confirmed, we wouldn’t be surprised to see anyone who didn’t die return for this film. That could include Rebecca Ferguson’s Ilsa Faust. Rolf Saxon’s William Donloe will come back, too.
Newcomers include Hannah Waddingham, Nick Offerman, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, and Lucy Tulugarjuk. Love Lies Bleeding‘s Katy O’Brian and Severance‘s Tramell Tillman have also joined the cast.
Additionally, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga, Henry Czerny, Angela Bassett, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, and Frederick Schmidt will be a part of the film.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’s Release Date
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning will release in theaters on May 23, 2025.
Originally published on August 1, 2023.
