The official title for Tom Cruise’s eighth Mission: Impossible film has finally been announced, accompanied by the release of its first trailer.
The movie, titled Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, was initially planned as “Part Two” of 2023’s Dead Reckoning.
Scheduled to hit theaters on May 23, 2025, the film was originally set for a 2022 release but faced multiple delays due to the pandemic and the SAG-AFTRA actors’ strike.
Cruise shared the title and a new poster on Monday morning, adding the tagline, “Every choice has led to this.”
The high-energy trailer showcases Cruise in a variety of thrilling scenes, including scuba diving near a sunken submarine, piloting and jumping from a biplane, and, of course, plenty of running.
It also reveals Angela Bassett’s return as CIA Director Erika Sloane, a role she first portrayed in Mission: Impossible – Fallout.
In Dead Reckoning, Ethan Hunt (Cruise) confronts a powerful AI known as The Entity, capable of predicting his every move and posing a global threat if acquired by the wrong hands.
After narrowly escaping a catastrophic train crash in the film’s climax, Ethan learns that The Entity is hidden on an old Russian submarine. But an old adversary, Gabriel (Esai Morales), is also on the hunt.
Morales reprises his role in The Final Reckoning, along with returning cast members Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Kirby, Pom Klementieff, Shea Whigham, Henry Czerny, Greg Tarzan Davis, Mariela Garriga, and Indira Varma.
New additions to the Mission: Impossible universe include Hannah Waddingham, Janet McTeer, Holt McCallany, Katy O’Brian, Nick Offerman, and Tramell Tillman.
Christopher McQuarrie returns to direct and co-write after previously helming Rogue Nation, Fallout, and Dead Reckoning.
He has also collaborated with Cruise on the Jack Reacher films and Top Gun: Maverick. The script is penned by McQuarrie, Bruce Geller, and Erik Jendresen.
Cruise and McQuarrie serve as producers, joined by executive producers Chris Brock, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Tommy Gormley, Don Granger, and Susan Novick, with Gina Hallas as co-producer.
