Highlights
This 2025, you are getting one compulsory mission – and it is not an impossible one. It is to catch on to all the fun as Tom Cruise returns as highly skilled IMF agent Ethan Hunt in ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’.
IMF stands for the Impossible Mission Force – an independent multinational espionage agency commonly employed by the US federal authorities. The agency is based in the US, but many of its personnel are from different countries across the globe.
IMF usually takes on missions that other organisations such as the FBI and MI6 find to be either the least of their concerns or too risky to undertake. Tom is returning to the big screens as Ethan and the excitement for the upcoming film cannot be higher.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning: Release date
The 8th film in the acclaimed action franchise is going to be a direct sequel to the 7th release for the first time in the series’ history. Originally, ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ had plans of another name – ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 2’.
Paramount Pictures announced the title change in October 2023. It is possible that the 8th film got a different title as the makers did not seek to scare potential audiences by explicitly marking it as a sequel to a film that underperformed at the box office.
‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ should have been shot, edited and released years ago. But the pandemic and other reasons resulted in significant delays. The current release date for the highly anticipated part is May 23, 2025.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning: Director and cast
Like all earlier Mission: Impossible entries, the 8th part of the hit franchise is also going to premiere in theatres. Christopher McQuarrie, the director behind Rogue Nation, Fallout and Dead Reckoning, returns for the 8th project.
Tom Cruise – playing the role of skilled IMF agent Ethan Hunt since 1996 – is returning. He shall be 62 at the time of the release. It is also possible that ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ shall be his last appearance as the character, some 30 years later.
He is going to be joined by a number of returning cast members, such as Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames as IMF agents Benji Dunn and Luther Stickell. Hayley Atwell is reprising her role as Grace, an initial pickpocket joining the IMF at the end of Dead Reckoning.
Esai Morales is returning as the last film’s Gabriel, the primary antagonist. Mark Gatiss and Charles Parnell are reported to reprise their roles, too. Katy O’Brian, Janet McTeer and Tramell Tillman are also slated to appear.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning: Possible plot
In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Ethan Hunt and his team at IMF looked for a couple of high-tech keys to control a rogue, near-omnipotent AI system called ‘Entity’. Nations and organisations across the globe seek control of the Entity.
Ethan goes rogue in an effort to destroy the system rather than risk letting it fall into anybody’s hands. He is able to take possession of both keys from Gabriel. But the antagonist escapes. Ethan’s next mission is possibly to destroy the Entity for good.
There has not been an official synopsis for ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’. But since it is the first direct sequel in the history of the franchise, it is expected that Ethan and his teammates shall try to destroy the system before anyone gets control of it.
Mission: Impossible: Tom Cruise nailing his stunts
If someone asks, is Tom Cruise going to do his stunts personally? – just inform them, is that a serious question? The 62-year-old is famous for doing his stunts personally. He has done a number of brave acts in the past, including riding a bike off a cliff (literally).
1. Mission: Impossible II
In the early 2000s, Tom Cruise did an amazing rock climbing scene in Mission: Impossible II. In the opening section, he can be seen climbing and hanging off giant rocks on the side of a cliff. He reportedly had only a safety cable during the shooting.
2. Top Gun
In 1986, Tom made headlines for personally shooting this high-risk scene for ‘Top Gun’. The actor’s character and his friend are ejected from the jet and parachuted into the ocean (leading to the other person’s death in the film).
3. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Tom Cruise scaled the staggering heights of Burj Khalifa in this scene. During the shooting of ‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’, he can be seen climbing the building (tallest on the planet) and only had the support of a safety cable.
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