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"Everything you are, everything you've done... has come to this." Paramount Pictures has unveiled the epic teaser trailer for the grand finale in the M:I series now officially titled Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. Apparently they've agreed to finally admit that this will be the last Ethan Hunt movie (hence the title), even though there were rumors that Tom Cruise didn't want to say this yet. The 8th entry in the long running Mission Impossible franchise - and the conclusion to Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One from 2023. Plot details are still a secret - it's obvious Hunt needs to stop a dangerous weapon from destroying the world and will go to the submarine to find out more. The massive cast of Final Reckoning: Tom Cruise with Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga, Henry Czerny, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Angela Bassett, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Frederick Schmidt. What an fantastic teaser! I got chills! The biplanes aerial stunt sequence they shot in 2022 is also finally going to be in this. Cannot wait! It's finally ready for a summer 2025 release next May.
First teaser for Christopher McQuarrie's Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, on YouTube:
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Teaser
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Poster
A continuation of the iconic Mission: Impossible series following Ethan Hunt formerly of the IMF, and the conclusion following Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023). Paramount Pictures and Skydance Present, A Tom Cruise Production. "Our lives are the sum of our choices." Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025). Mission: Impossible 8 is once again directed by prominent American screenwriter and filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie, director of the films The Way of the Gun, Jack Reacher, as well as the three other Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, Fallout, and Dead Reckoning Part One previously; he also wrote the scripts for Valkyrie, The Tourist, Jack Reacher, Edge of Tomorrow, The Mummy, and Top Gun: Maverick. The screenplay is written by Christopher McQuarrie & Erik Jendresen. Based on the original TV Series created by Bruce Geller. It's produced by Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie. Paramount will release the grand finale Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning in theaters worldwide starting May 23rd, 2025 next summer. First impression? Who's ready for it now?
Mission: Impossible –
The Final Reckoning
Teaser poster
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
Written by
Christopher McQuarrie
Erik Jendresen
Based on Mission: Impossible
by Bruce Geller
Produced by
Tom Cruise
Christopher McQuarrie
Starring
Tom Cruise
Hayley Atwell
Ving Rhames
Simon Pegg
Vanessa Kirby
Esai Morales
Pom Klementieff
Angela Bassett
Henry Czerny
Cinematography Fraser Taggart
Edited by Eddie Hamilton
Music by Lorne Balfe
Production
companies
Skydance
TC Productions
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
May 23, 2025
Country United States
Language English
Budget $400 million[1]
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is an upcoming American action spy film directed by Christopher McQuarrie from a screenplay he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen. The direct sequel to Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023), it is the eighth installment in the Mission: Impossible film series.[2] Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Angela Bassett, and Rolf Saxon reprise their roles from the previous films.[3][4]
In January 2019, Cruise announced that the seventh and eighth Mission: Impossible films would be shot back-to-back with McQuarrie writing and directing both films. Plans for the film later changed in February 2021. Returning and new cast members were announced soon after, and Lorne Balfe, who composed the scores for two previous films in the series, returned to score the film. Filming began in March 2022 in the United Kingdom, with other filming locations including Malta, South Africa and Norway. Production was halted in July 2023 due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, and resumed in March 2024 before wrapping by November 2024. The film, originally titled Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two, dropped its subtitle in October 2023, and the new subtitle for the film was announced in November 2024.
The Final Reckoning is scheduled to be released in the United States on May 23, 2025, by Paramount Pictures.
Cast
Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt: An IMF agent and leader of a team of operatives.
Hayley Atwell as Grace: A former thief turned IMF agent and Ethan's ally.[5]
Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell: An IMF computer technician, Ethan's best friend and a member of his team.
Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn: An IMF technical field agent and a member of Ethan's team and close friend.
Vanessa Kirby as Alanna Mitsopolis: A black market arms dealer also known as the White Widow and daughter of "Max", a deceased former arms dealer from the first film.
Esai Morales as Gabriel: An assassin with ties to Ethan's past before the IMF, who acts as the Entity's liaison.
Pom Klementieff as Paris: A French assassin who was betrayed by Gabriel and became an ally of the IMF after being spared by Ethan.
Mariela Garriga as Marie: A woman from Ethan and Gabriel's past.[6]
Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge: The former director of IMF in the first film who became the director of the CIA in Dead Reckoning.
Holt McCallany as Bernstein: The Secretary of Defense.
Janet McTeer
Nick Offerman as Sydney: The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Hannah Waddingham[7][8]
Angela Bassett as Erika Sloane: The former CIA director, now President of the United States. Bassett returns from Fallout.
Shea Whigham as Jasper Briggs: A US Intelligence agent assigned to track down Ethan and his team.[9]
Greg Tarzan Davis as Degas: A US Intelligence agent and Briggs' partner assigned to track down Ethan and his team.
Charles Parnell: The head of the NRO.
Frederick Schmidt as Zola Mitsopolis, Alanna's brother.
Rolf Saxon as William Donloe, a CIA analyst who was last seen in the first film being transferred to Alaska.[10]
Tommie Earl Jenkins as Colonel Burdick
Mark Gatiss and Indira Varma return as the heads of the NSA and DIA from Dead Reckoning, respectively, while Lucy Tulugarjuk, Katy O'Brian,[11] Tramell Tillman,[12] and Stephen Oyoung have been cast in undisclosed roles.[13]
Production
Development
On January 14, 2019, Tom Cruise announced that the seventh and eighth Mission: Impossible films would be shot back-to-back with Christopher McQuarrie writing and directing both films for July 23, 2021 and August 5, 2022, releases.[14][15] However, in February 2021, Deadline Hollywood revealed that Paramount had decided to no longer move forward with that plan.[16]
Casting
In September 2019, Hayley Atwell and Pom Klementieff joined the cast of the eighth installment.[17][18] In December, Simon Pegg confirmed his return for the film, while Shea Whigham was also cast.[19][20] Nicholas Hoult joined the cast by January 2020, along with Henry Czerny, who will reprise his role as Eugene Kittridge for the first time since the 1996 film.[21][22] Vanessa Kirby also announced she was returning for both films.[23] However, due to scheduling conflicts, Hoult was replaced by Esai Morales for both films.[24] In July 2022, it was reported that Holt McCallany had joined the cast.[25] In August, it was revealed Nick Offerman and Janet McTeer were also added to the cast.[26] In March 2023, McQuarrie announced Hannah Waddingham, Lucy Tulugarjuk and Rolf Saxon's addition to the cast, the latter of whom reprises his role from the first film.[7][27] In March 2024, Katy O'Brian joined the cast in an undisclosed role.[28] In April 2024, Tramell Tillman was cast in an undisclosed role.[12] In November 2024, it was revealed that Angela Bassett would reprise her role as CIA Director Erika Sloane.[29]
Filming
In February 2021, Deadline Hollywood reported that the film would no longer be filmed back-to-back with Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.[30] By November, McQuarrie was in the process of rewriting the film.[31] On March 23, 2022, The Hollywood Reporter reported the beginning of principal photography of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two.[32] Filming took place in the UK at Longcross Studios and the Lake District. Other locations included Malta, South Africa and Norway. In December 2022, it was reported that filming was finished in the UK.[33] The crew then moved to Apulia in Italy to continue filming aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush.[34] During the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike, production was thought to have been put on hold according to an interview with McQuarrie in the June 2023 issue of the Empire magazine.[35] However, this was later revealed to have been a misinterpretation of McQuarrie's statement, and continued production was only waiting for the promotion of Part One to complete.[36] Filming was officially suspended in July due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.[37] The film returned to production in March 2024, though in May, encountered a delay due to a submarine malfunction.[38][39] During a filming in England, Cruise and Morales were observed performing stunts from an airborne biplane, with Cruise holding onto the wings of the open cockpit aircraft as it flew upside down, while the pilot wore a greenscreen suit so as to be digitally removed from the final shot.[40] In July 2024, Simon Pegg revealed on Instagram that filming has wrapped up on his part, though the cast and crew are maintaining radio silence.[41][42] According to an interview between Cruise and Paramount as per The Hollywood Reporter in November 2024, the film has wrapped production and is currently in post-production.[43]
Post-production
Industrial Light & Magic returns from the seventh film to produce the visual effects, with Clear Angle Studios and Halon Entertainment as the additional vendors for lidar, cyber scanning and previsualization.[44][45][46] In October 2023, Dead Reckoning Part Two was removed as the film's subtitle,[47] and the new subtitle was confirmed as The Final Reckoning in November 2024.[48]
Music
Lorne Balfe was announced to be composing the score for the seventh and eighth Mission: Impossible films in May 2020, after previously doing so for Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018).[49]
Release
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is scheduled to be released on May 23, 2025.[50] It was previously set for release on August 5, 2022,[51] but was delayed to November 4, 2022,[52] July 7, 2023,[53] June 28, 2024,[54] and then to the current date as a result of the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, taking the original release date of The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants.[55]
Future
In June 2023, McQuarrie told Fandango that Dead Reckoning and The Final Reckoning would not necessarily end the series, and they were developing ideas for future installments.[56] In July 2023, during promotion for Dead Reckoning, Cruise expressed interest in continuing to make further films in the series as Ethan Hunt, despite both films having initially been billed as a send-off to the character, citing Harrison Ford playing Indiana Jones well until his late 70s.[57] On November 12, 2024, insider Jeff Sneider reported that Cruise was looking at his Top Gun: Maverick co-star Glen Powell to replace him as the new lead. Powell denied this rumor on The Pat McAfee Show while Pat McAfee was congratulating him by phone.[58][59][60]
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Mission: Impossible
Official film series logo
Based on Mission: Impossible
by Bruce Geller
Produced by Tom Cruise
Paula Wagner (1–3)
J. J. Abrams (4–6)
Christopher McQuarrie (6–8)
Starring Tom Cruise
Ving Rhames
Simon Pegg
Production
companies
Cruise/Wagner Productions (1–3)
Skydance Media (4–8)
TC Productions (4–8)
Bad Robot (4–6)
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date 1996–2025
Running time 931 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $1.119 billion
(7 films)
Box office $4.14 billion
(7 films)
Mission: Impossible is a series of American action spy films, based on the 1966 TV series created by Bruce Geller. The series is mainly produced by Tom Cruise, who plays Ethan Hunt, an agent of the Impossible Mission Force (IMF). The films have been directed, written, and scored by various filmmakers and crew, while incorporating musical themes from the original series by Lalo Schifrin.
Starting in 1996, the films (taking place starting six years after the events of the previous TV sequel series) follow the missions of the IMF's main field team, under Hunt's leadership, to stop an enemy force and prevent an impending global disaster. The series focuses on Hunt's character, and like the television series' structure, is complemented by an ensemble cast, such as Luther Stickell (played by Ving Rhames) and Benji Dunn (played by Simon Pegg), who have recurring roles.
The series has experienced a generally positive reception from critics. It is the 17th-highest-grossing film series of all time, earning over $4.09 billion worldwide,[1] and is often cited as one of the best action franchises to date. The sixth film, subtitled Fallout, was released on July 27, 2018 and is currently the series' highest-grossing entry. The seventh and most recent film, Dead Reckoning Part One,[a] was released in July 2023, and an eighth film, The Final Reckoning, is scheduled for release in May 2025. The films are co-produced and released by Paramount Pictures.
In 2024, the series received its first Academy Award nominations, with Dead Reckoning Part One being nominated in the categories of Best Visual Effects and Best Sound at the 96th ceremony.[3]
Films
Film U.S. release date Director Screenwriter(s) Story by Producers Status
Mission: Impossible May 22, 1996 Brian De Palma David Koepp & Robert Towne David Koepp & Steven Zaillian Tom Cruise & Paula Wagner Released
Mission: Impossible 2 May 24, 2000 John Woo Robert Towne Brannon Braga & Ronald D. Moore
Mission: Impossible III May 5, 2006 J. J. Abrams J. J. Abrams, Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol December 16, 2011 Brad Bird André Nemec & Josh Appelbaum Tom Cruise, Bryan Burk & J. J. Abrams
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation July 31, 2015 Christopher McQuarrie Christopher McQuarrie Drew Pearce & Christopher McQuarrie Tom Cruise, Bryan Burk, Don Granger, J. J. Abrams, Dana Goldberg & David Ellison
Mission: Impossible – Fallout July 27, 2018 Christopher McQuarrie Tom Cruise, Jake Myers, J. J. Abrams & Christopher McQuarrie
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One[a] July 12, 2023 Erik Jendresen & Christopher McQuarrie Tom Cruise & Christopher McQuarrie
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning May 23, 2025 Post-Production
Mission: Impossible (1996)
Main article: Mission: Impossible (film)
Ethan Hunt is framed for the murder of his IMF team during a botched mission in Prague and accused of selling government secrets to an arms dealer known only as "Max". On the run, Ethan seeks to discover the real traitor and clear his name.
Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)
Main article: Mission: Impossible 2
Ethan goes back in action and works with professional thief Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Thandie Newton). The duo go undercover to stop rogue IMF agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) (who is also Nyah's former lover) from stealing a deadly virus, starting a pandemic, and selling the antidote to the highest bidder.
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Main article: Mission: Impossible III
Ethan is engaged to Julia Meade (Michelle Monaghan), who is unaware of his true job. He assembles a team to face the elusive arms and information broker Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who intends to sell a mysterious dangerous object known as "The Rabbit's Foot".
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)
Main article: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Ethan and the entire IMF are framed for the bombing of the Kremlin while investigating an individual known only as "Cobalt" (Michael Nyqvist). Ethan and three other agents are left to stop Cobalt from starting a global nuclear war.
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)
Main article: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Ethan Hunt comes under threat from the Syndicate. Faced with the IMF's disbandment, Hunt assembles his team for their mission to prove the Syndicate's existence and bring the organization down by any means necessary.
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
Main article: Mission: Impossible – Fallout
When an IMF mission to recover plutonium goes wrong, the world is faced with the threat of the Apostles, a terrorist group formed by former members of the Syndicate. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill the original mission, the CIA begins to question his loyalty and his motives.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
Main article: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
An AI called the Entity is responsible for the sinking of the next-generation Russian submarine Sevastopol. The Entity has since gone rogue and entrenched itself into cyberspace; the secret to stopping or controlling it lies with the key, which Ethan Hunt and the IMF must track down, as various world powers and nefarious forces race to obtain the key in order to use the Entity for their own purpose.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)
Main article: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
In January 2019, an eighth Mission: Impossible film was announced to be in development, written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie. It was originally to be filmed back-to-back with the seventh film.[4][5] It was scheduled to be released on August 5, 2022, but was delayed to November 4, 2022, then to July 7, 2023, then to June 28, 2024, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[6][7] It was later delayed to May 23, 2025 due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.
Hayley Atwell joined the cast in September 2019,[8] followed by Pom Klementieff and Shea Whigham.[9][10] In January 2020, Nicholas Hoult and Simon Pegg were announced to be appearing in the film,[11][12] but Hoult was later replaced by Esai Morales in both films due to scheduling conflicts.[13]
In February 2020, it was announced that Henry Czerny and Vanessa Kirby would return as Eugene Kittridge and Alanna Mitsopolis, respectively.[14][15] In February 2021, Deadline Hollywood reported that Part Two would no longer be filmed back-to-back with Part One.[16] Filming of Part Two began shortly after production wrapped on Part One.[17] It was initially billed that both films would be a send-off for Ethan Hunt.[18] In October 2023, Dead Reckoning Part Two was removed as the film's subtitle, and in November 2024, the new subtitle The Final Reckoning was announced.[19]
Future
In June 2023, Christopher McQuarrie stated that Dead Reckoning Part One and The Final Reckoning would not end the series, as there are developments for future installments.[20] In July 2023, during promotion for Dead Reckoning Part One, Cruise expressed interest in continuing to make further films in the series as Ethan Hunt, despite both films having previously been billed as a send-off to the character.[21] Inspired by Harrison Ford's continued success in the Indiana Jones films, Cruise stated that he would like to keep making Mission: Impossible films until he is likewise in his eighties.[22]
Recurring cast and characters
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Overview of Mission: Impossible cast and crew
Character
Mission: Impossible 2 III Ghost Protocol Rogue Nation Fallout Dead Reckoning Part One The Final Reckoning
Ethan Hunt Tom Cruise
Luther Stickell Ving Rhames Ving RhamesC Ving Rhames
Eugene Kittridge Henry Czerny Henry Czerny
William Donloe Rolf Saxon Rolf Saxon
The Contact Andreas Wisniewski Andreas WisniewskiC
Benji Dunn Simon Pegg
Julia Meade Michelle Monaghan Michelle MonaghanC Michelle Monaghan
William Brandt Jeremy Renner
Ilsa Faust Rebecca Ferguson TBA
Solomon Lane Sean Harris
Alan Hunley Alec Baldwin
Alanna Mitsopolis
The White Widow Vanessa Kirby
Zola Mitsopolis Frederick Schmidt
President Erika Sloane Angela Bassett Angela BassettP Angela Bassett
Grace Hayley Atwell
Jasper Briggs Shea Whigham
Degas Greg Tarzan Davis
Gabriel Esai Morales
Paris Pom Klementieff
Marie Mariela Garriga
Head of the NSA Mark Gatiss
Head of the NRO Charles Parnell
Additional crew and production details
Production details of Mission: Impossible films
Film Crew/Detail
Composer Cinematographer Editor(s) Production companies Distributing companies Running time
Mission: Impossible Danny Elfman Stephen H. Burum Paul Hirsch Paramount Pictures
Cruise/Wagner Productions Paramount Pictures 110 min
Mission: Impossible 2 Hans Zimmer Jeffrey L. Kimball Steven Kemper
Christian Wagner Paramount Pictures
Cruise/Wagner Productions
Munich Film Partners & Company 124 min
Mission: Impossible III Michael Giacchino Dan Mindel Mary Jo Markey
Maryann Brandon Paramount Pictures
Cruise/Wagner Productions
The Fourth Production Company Film Group 126 min
Mission: Impossible –
Ghost Protocol Robert Elswit Paul Hirsch TC Productions
Skydance Media
Paramount Pictures
Bad Robot 133 min
Mission: Impossible –
Rogue Nation Joe Kraemer Eddie Hamilton 131 min
Mission: Impossible –
Fallout Lorne Balfe Rob Hardy 147 min
Mission: Impossible –
Dead Reckoning Part One Fraser Taggart TC Productions
Skydance Media
Paramount Pictures 163 min
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Reception
Box-office performance off Mission: Impossible films
Film U.S. release date Budget Box-office gross
Domestic International Worldwide
Mission: Impossible[23] May 22, 1996 $80 million $180,981,856 $276,714,535 $457,696,391
Mission: Impossible 2[24] May 24, 2000 $125 million $215,409,889 $330,978,219 $546,388,108
Mission: Impossible III[25] May 5, 2006 $150 million $134,029,801 $264,449,696 $398,479,497
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol[26] December 16, 2011 $145 million $209,397,903 $485,315,477 $694,713,380
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation[27] July 31, 2015 $150 million $195,042,377 $487,674,259 $682,716,636
Mission: Impossible – Fallout[28] July 27, 2018 $178 million $220,159,104 $571,498,294 $791,657,398
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One[29] July 12, 2023 $291 million $172,135,383 $398,500,000 $570,635,383
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning May 23, 2025 $400 million
Total[30] $1.519 billion $1,327,156,313 $2,812,030,480 $4,139,186,793
Critical and public response
The Mission: Impossible film series has received positive reviews from critics and audiences, with the latter four attracting significant praise directed towards their direction, cinematography, stunts, action sequences, performances, and musical scores.
Critical and popular reception of Mission: Impossible films
Film Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic CinemaScore[31]
Mission: Impossible 66% (66 reviews)[32] 59 (29 reviews)[33] B+
Mission: Impossible 2 56% (155 reviews)[34] 59 (40 reviews)[35] B
Mission: Impossible III 71% (224 reviews)[36] 66 (42 reviews)[37] A−
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol 93% (253 reviews)[38] 73 (47 reviews)[39] A−
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation 94% (328 reviews)[40] 75 (46 reviews)[41] A−
Mission: Impossible – Fallout 97% (444 reviews)[42] 87 (60 reviews)[43] A
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One 96% (438 reviews)[44] 81 (66 reviews)[45] A
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Music
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Theme
The television version is in a rarely used 5
4 time (an unusual time signature with five crotchets to a bar) and is difficult to dance to,[46] as was demonstrated by a memorable segment of American Bandstand in which teenage dancers were caught off-guard by Dick Clark's playing of the Lalo Schifrin single release.
The opening theme music for the first seven films are stylized renditions of Schifrin's original iconic theme, preserving the 5
4 rhythm, by Danny Elfman, Hans Zimmer, Michael Giacchino, Joe Kraemer and Lorne Balfe, respectively.[citation needed]
For Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr.'s version featured on the first film's motion picture soundtrack, the time signature was changed to standard pop 4
4 time to make it more dance-friendly, although the intro is still in 5
4 time.[46] The Limp Bizkit song "Take a Look Around" from the soundtrack to the second film was set to a similar 4
4 modification of the theme, with an interlude in 5
4.[citation needed]
Notes
Later resubtitled Dead Reckoning when it was released on streaming platforms.[2]
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
Written by
Christopher McQuarrie
Erik Jendresen
Based on Mission: Impossible
by Bruce Geller
Produced by
Tom Cruise
Christopher McQuarrie
Starring
Tom Cruise
Hayley Atwell
Ving Rhames
Simon Pegg
Rebecca Ferguson
Vanessa Kirby
Esai Morales
Pom Klementieff
Mariela Garriga
Henry Czerny
Cinematography Fraser Taggart
Edited by Eddie Hamilton
Music by Lorne Balfe
Production
companies
Skydance
C2 Motion Picture Group
TC Productions
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release dates
June 19, 2023 (Rome)
July 12, 2023 (United States)
Running time 163 minutes[1]
Country United States
Language English
Budget $291 million (gross)[2]
$219 million (net)[3]
Box office $570.6 million[4][5]
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One[a] is a 2023 American action spy film directed by Christopher McQuarrie from a screenplay he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen.[7] It is the sequel to Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) and the seventh installment in the Mission: Impossible film series. It stars Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, alongside an ensemble cast including Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga and Henry Czerny. In the film, Hunt and his IMF team face off against the Entity, a powerful rogue AI.
In January 2019, Cruise announced the next two Mission: Impossible films would be shot back-to-back, with McQuarrie writing and directing both. Returning and new cast members were announced soon after, and Lorne Balfe, who composed the score for Fallout, returned to score. Filming began in Italy in February 2020 but was halted by the COVID-19 pandemic. It resumed later that year and wrapped in September 2021, with other filming locations including Norway, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates. It is the first film in the series since Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) not to involve J. J. Abrams and the first film in the series not to be produced by Abrams's Bad Robot since Mission: Impossible III (2006). With an estimated budget of $291 million, it is one of the most expensive films ever made.
Dead Reckoning premiered in Rome on June 19, 2023, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 12, 2023, by Paramount Pictures. The film received generally positive reviews and grossed $570.6 million worldwide. Despite being the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2023, its overall budget and competition from the "Barbenheimer" cultural phenomenon resulted in the film becoming a box-office disappointment. The film was nominated in two categories at the 96th Academy Awards and the 77th British Academy Film Awards. A sequel, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, is scheduled for release in May 2025.
Plot
The Sevastopol, a next-generation Russian stealth submarine, employs an advanced AI, a self-aware, self-learning, digital parasite, that is activated by a two-piece cruciform key. The AI becomes sentient and goes rogue, infesting all of cyberspace. It deceives the crew into attacking a phantom target, only to be struck by their own torpedo, killing all aboard. IMF agent Ethan Hunt travels to the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Desert and successfully retrieves a key piece from Ilsa Faust, a disavowed MI6 agent, and also fakes her death to ensure she survives a bounty placed by an unknown source. Back in Washington, D.C., Ethan infiltrates a U.S. Intelligence Community briefing for Director of National Intelligence Denlinger discussing the rogue AI. They give it the title "the Entity" because of its sentience and defiance. CIA Director Eugene Kittridge states that the Entity can manipulate cyberspace, allowing it to control global defense intelligence and financial networks. World powers compete to obtain the cruciform key to control the Entity, though the exact means of controlling it are unknown.
Ethan reveals himself and converses with Kittridge, who confesses that he was the one who placed Ilsa's bounty. Ethan reveals to him his intention to destroy the Entity, knowing he would be considered rogue and is participating in a global race. Ethan and his IMF teammates Benji Dunn and Luther Stickell travel to Abu Dhabi International Airport to intercept the holder of the other key piece, while evading US agents. During the pursuit, the key piece is stolen by a thief named Grace, while Luther and Benji disarm a hoax nuclear device. Ethan suspects foul play after seeing Gabriel, a ruthless Entity liaison with ties to his pre-IMF past. Aborting the mission, the team scatters and Grace escapes to Rome. Grace is apprehended upon arrival, but Ethan rescues her from local authorities, US agents and Paris, an Entity operative. Grace escapes again, while Ethan meets up with Luther and Benji, with Ilsa rejoining them. With Benji and Luther providing support, Ethan and Ilsa follow Grace to Venice, where they infiltrate a party held by the arms dealer Alanna Mitsopolis.
With the party masquerading as a brokerage set up by the Entity, all groups disclose their role in acquiring the complete key. Grace was hired by Alanna to steal the other key piece to produce the completed key, which will be sold to her buyer the next day on the Orient Express. Through the Entity, Gabriel proclaims that he will possess the completed key the next day and that either Ilsa or Grace will die. Ethan unsuccessfully attempts to dissuade Alanna from the sale, allowing Gabriel and Grace to escape. Ethan pursues Grace, but the Entity hacks into their communications and impersonates Benji, leading him into a fight with Paris, whom he spares. Concurrently, Gabriel incapacitates Grace and kills Ilsa, devastating Ethan, who vows to exact revenge. Benji prepares an Alanna mask so Grace can impersonate her at the sale. Luther leaves for an off-grid location to prevent interference from the Entity, advising Ethan to spare Gabriel to determine information about the Entity. On the train, Gabriel kills the engine crew and destroys the throttle and brake. With Paris, Gabriel meets Denlinger, who divulges information only he knows in an attempt to form an alliance between himself and the Entity.
The Entity was originally an advanced cyber weapon developed by the US. The completed key unlocks a chamber inside the Sevastopol containing the Entity's source code, allowing it to be destroyed or controlled. Gabriel subsequently kills Denlinger and tries to kill Paris as the Entity determined she would betray them after Ethan spared her life. A disguised Grace brings the key to Kittridge, revealed to be the buyer, and negotiates a $100 million sale alongside protection for herself, but pickpockets the key from Kittridge after cancelling the transfer. Ethan parachutes into the train to save Grace, but Gabriel acquires the key. Ethan and Gabriel fight atop the train, but Gabriel escapes and detonates a bridge ahead. Grace and Ethan detach the locomotive from the rest of the train, saving the passengers. Paris rescues both from falling and manages to tell Ethan about the key's connection to the Sevastopol before losing consciousness. Grace informs Kittridge of her desire to join the IMF. Ethan flees the wreckage by paraglider with the completed key, which he took from Gabriel during the fight, and rendezvous with Benji to continue the mission to find the Sevastopol and destroy the Entity.
Cast
Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, an IMF agent and leader of an operatives team.
Hayley Atwell as Grace, a thief and Ethan's new ally. Christopher McQuarrie described Atwell's character as a "destructive force of nature", while Atwell explained that her character's loyalties are "somewhat ambiguous".[8][9]
Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell, an IMF computer technician, Ethan's best friend, and a member of his team.
Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn, an IMF technical field agent, Ethan's friend and a member of his team.
Pegg also voices the Entity, a powerful rogue sentient AI who can manipulate cyberspace, allowing it to control global defense intelligence and financial networks, who enlists Gabriel as a liaison while world powers compete to control it.
Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust, a disavowed MI6 agent who allied with Ethan's team during Rogue Nation (2015) and Fallout (2018).
Vanessa Kirby as Alanna Mitsopolis, a black-market arms dealer and broker who goes by the alias "White Widow". Alanna is the daughter of Max, a deceased arms dealer originally portrayed by Vanessa Redgrave from the first film.
Esai Morales as Gabriel, a liaison assassin and Ethan's adversary who appears to be working with the Entity, an all-powerful AI system, to rule the world. He and Ethan had a fateful encounter with each other prior to Ethan's becoming an IMF agent.[10]
Pom Klementieff as Paris, a French assassin who works for Gabriel.[11]
Mariela Garriga as Marie, a woman from Ethan and Gabriel's past, seen only in brief flashbacks.[12]
Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge, the former director of the IMF and current director of the CIA last seen in Mission: Impossible (1996).
Shea Whigham as Jasper Briggs, a US Intelligence agent assigned to hunting Ethan and his team.[13]
Cary Elwes as Denlinger, the Director of National Intelligence.[14]
Greg Tarzan Davis as Degas, a US Intelligence agent and Briggs's partner assigned to track down Ethan and his team.
Frederick Schmidt as Zola Mitsopolis, Alanna's brother.[15]
Additionally, Charles Parnell, Rob Delaney, Indira Varma and Mark Gatiss appear as heads of US Intelligence agencies, representing NRO, JSOC, DIA and NSA, respectively.[16][10] Marcin Dorociński and Ivan Ivashkin appear as the captain and the second-in-command of the Sevastopol submarine, respectively.[17]
Production
Development and pre-production
On January 14, 2019, Tom Cruise announced that the seventh and eighth Mission: Impossible films would be shot back-to-back with Christopher McQuarrie writing and directing both films for July 23, 2021, and August 5, 2022, releases.[18][19] In February 2021, Paramount Pictures scuttled that plan.[20]
In February 2019, Rebecca Ferguson confirmed her return for the seventh installment.[21][22] In September, McQuarrie announced that Hayley Atwell had joined the cast.[23] In September 2019, Pom Klementieff joined the cast of both the seventh and eighth films.[11] In December 2019, Simon Pegg confirmed his return for the film, with Shea Whigham cast in both films.[24][25] Nicholas Hoult was cast in a role in January 2020, along with the addition of Henry Czerny, reprising his role as Eugene Kittridge for the first time since the 1996 film.[26][27] Hoult was cast because Cruise liked his audition for Top Gun: Maverick (2022) to play Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw, recognizing him as a supremely talented actor who just wasn't suited to play that role for that movie even though there wasn't a concrete story set for the seventh Mission: Impossible film.[28]
Vanessa Kirby also announced she was returning for both films.[29] In May 2020, it was reported that Esai Morales would replace Hoult as the villain in both films because of scheduling conflicts.[30] Morales was cast as Gabriel because of McQuarrie seeing his role of Camino Del Rio on Ozark; Hoult's recasting thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic with Morales led to drastic story changes since it was after Morales was cast that McQuarrie realized that Cruise and Morales being about the same age opened several story possibilities to tie in their characters to Ethan Hunt's backstory. Similarly, it was after Hoult's departure that the filmmakers came up with the concept of "The Entity".[28]
Angela Bassett announced she would return as Erika Sloane in December 2020, but she was later removed because of COVID-19 travel restrictions.[31][32] Sloane appears in the film in a photo on the wall of DNI Denlinger's office during an intelligence briefing. In March 2021, McQuarrie revealed that Rob Delaney, Charles Parnell, Indira Varma, Mark Gatiss and Cary Elwes had joined the cast.[16] That same day, Greg Tarzan Davis was also confirmed to have joined the cast.[14]
McQuarrie revealed that for the flashback segments, he considered making them reflective of the 1989 setting akin to "Tony Scott’s Mission: Impossible", down to de-aging all the actors and featuring Julia Roberts as the girlfriend murdered by Gabriel. However, he stepped back once discovering how pricey the effects would become, while also feeling a younger Cruise would be distracting to audiences.[33] McQuarrie had also chosen to have Ilsa Faust die in the film while working on Top Gun: Maverick (2022) with Cruise, which he had co-written. He felt the decision would show the "stakes have to be real" and described Ilsa and Ethan's relationship as being "doomed to be together and yet doomed never to be together".[34]
Filming
Under the working title Libra,[35] filming was scheduled to begin on February 20, 2020, in Venice, set up to last for three weeks before moving to Rome in mid-March for 40 days,[36][37] but the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy halted production in the country.[38] Three weeks later, stunt rehearsals began in Surrey, England, just before a hiatus.[39] On July 6, 2020, after another hiatus, crew arriving in the UK were permitted to begin filming without going through the mandatory 14-day quarantine. The set was located at Warner Bros Studios, Leavesden in Hertfordshire.[40]
The following month, permission was granted for filming in Møre og Romsdal, Norway.[41] That same month, a large fire broke out on a motorcycle stunt rig in Oxfordshire. The scene had taken six weeks to prepare and was "among one of the most expensive ever filmed in the U.K." No one was hurt in the incident.[42]
Filming began on September 6, 2020,[43] when McQuarrie started to publish pictures from the sets on Instagram.[44] The film was shot with Sony CineAlta Venice cameras, making it the first film in the Mission: Impossible franchise to be shot digitally. In September 2020, filming took place in Norway, including the municipalities of Stranda and Rauma, with Cruise seen filming an action scene with Esai Morales atop a train.[45] On October 26, 2020, production was suspended in Italy after 12 people tested positive for COVID-19 on set. Filming resumed a week later.
In December 2020, during filming in London, an audio recording of Cruise shouting at two crew members for not following COVID-19 protocols on set was released online.[46] Cruise was likened to his character Les Grossman from Tropic Thunder (2008) as a result.[47][48] The response from the general public and that of many celebrities was supportive, suggesting that his tone and seriousness were warranted given the extreme circumstances and burden of ensuring production not be halted again.[49][50] On December 28, 2020, Variety reported that the film would conclude principal photography at Longcross Film Studios in the United Kingdom, with production shifting from Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden. In Longcross, which is in Surrey in southeast England, production was allowed to continue under strict COVID-19 protocols.[51] In February 2021, filming concluded in the Middle East and the crew returned to London for "finishing touches".
On April 20, 2021, filming commenced in the small village of Levisham, North Yorkshire, at North Yorkshire Moors Railway,[52] for a sequence set in the Alps in Austria with a train going 60 miles (97 km) an hour toward a bridge being blown up,[53][54] as a reference to the climactic train wreck scene in the silent film The General (1926).[55] In August 2021, filming commenced in Birmingham at the city's Grand Central shopping centre, with Cruise and Atwell spotted by onlookers.[56] In September 2021, the film's gaffer Martin Smith confirmed on Instagram that principal photography had officially wrapped.[57]
Other locations for the movie included a terminal still under construction at the Abu Dhabi airport[58] and various sites in the Italian cities of Rome (including the 20-minute-long car chase)[59] and Venice.[60]
Filming for the parachute and speed flying sequence took place in the Lake District over the Buttermere Valley in the summer of 2021 and 2022. The fells of High Crag and Robinson were used as launching points for shooting the speed flying scene, with landings taking place near the shore of the nearby lake.[61] The train scene with the motorcycle jump was shot in Norway, with the fight scenes agreed on with the Norwegian government.[62]
Polish bridge controversy
The 1908 railway bridge over Lake Pilchowickie in southern Poland, a would-be filming location for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One that was in the international spotlight throughout 2020.
During the pre-production in late 2019, the Swiss government refused to authorize any explosions for the train sequence in the Alps;[63] as a result, the Skydance Media production team embarked on location scoutings in different countries to find an unwanted railway bridge.[54][55] Among those asked to help with staging a "full-scale train crash" was Polish-American film producer Andrew Eksner.[55] In November 2019, the Polish State Railways proposed Eksner use a 151-meter-long (495 ft), 1908 German-era riveted truss bridge on Lake Pilchowickie [pʲilxɔvʲit͡skʲɛ] [pl; es], in the Jelenia Góra Valley, in Lower Silesia.[64][65] In December 2019, Paramount Pictures producers including McQuarrie landed in southern Poland,[66] accompanied in deep secrecy by officers of the Polish engineering troops.[53] McQuarrie documented the visit on Instagram.[67]
Officially opened in 1912 by Wilhelm II, the proposed bridge survived World War II mostly intact,[68] and was used by trains until 2016.[69] Despite publicly praising the bridge as "extremely valuable,"[70] an expert misrepresented conclusions of a commissioned report,[71] that instead of renovating, it would be best to demolish the bridge and build a new one.[72][73] In March 2020, after the rejected Eksner spread the information,[55] local authorities and museum officials were appalled by the producers' intention to physically destroy the bridge, instead of using CGI effects.[64][74] The filmmakers and government officials said the bridge was intended for demolition.[69]
By July 2020, history and railway enthusiasts, scientists and filmmakers protested, along with the regional Monuments Heritage Office, members of Polish parliament,[69][75] and the International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage.[76] Activists and NGOs launched a petition against the destruction.[77] As it was long registered provincially, and being added into Poland's national Registry of Cultural Property,[74][78] the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage confirmed it was pushing the bridge to play in the movie, with a "small section" to be demolished onset, before revitalizing the related local heritage railway line altogether.[79] Following the backlash,[75][80] the General Conservator of Monuments assured "there was no question&quo
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