Mission: Impossible 8 - The Final Reckoning Teaser Trailer Showcases AI Threat and Tom Cruise's Stunts

Mission: Impossible 8 teaser trailer shows Tom Cruise risking it all to save the world | Digital Trends

Tom Cruise must save the world one last time in the teaser trailer for Mission: Impossible 8, now officially titled Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. For Ethan Hunt (Cruise), every action and decision he's ever made has led to this moment. At the end of Dead Reckoning, Ethan manages to steal the cruciform key to the Entity before escaping the train. With the key in his possession, Ethan and his team must find the Sevastopol, the sunken Russian submarine that hosts the Entity, and destroy the all-powerful AI before it gets into the wrong hands. Recommended Videos It wouldn't be a Mission: Impossible movie without stunts, and the teaser features death-defying action, with Cruise at the center of it. Cruise explores a submerged submarine, fights for his life in hand-to-hand combat, and hangs upside down off the side of a plane. And it wouldn't be Mission: Impossible without Cruise showing off his speed in a dead sprint. "I need you to trust me one last time," Hunt says to end the teaser. Besides Cruise, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning cast features Hayley Atwell as Grace, Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell, Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn, Vanessa Kirby as Alanna Mitsopolis, Esai Morales as Gabriel, Pom Klementieff as Paris, Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge, Shea Whigham as Jasper Briggs, Greg Tarzan Davis as Degas, and Mariela Garriga as Marie. The teaser also features the return of Angela Bassett as Erika Sloane, the CIA director last seen in Mission: Impossible - Fallout. Newcomers to Mission: Impossible 8 include Hannah Waddingham, Holt McCallany, Katy O'Brian, Janet McTeer, Tramell Tillman, and Nick Offerman. Every choice has led to this. Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. May 23, 2025. pic.twitter.com/enSYtsxMYs — Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) November 11, 2024 Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is directed by Christopher McQuarrie from a screenplay he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen. McQuarrie and Cruise are the producers. Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning opens in theaters on May 23, 2025.

Mission: Impossible â€"The Final Reckoning's Trailer Really Wants You To Know Tom Cruise Is Still That Dude

The eighth Mission: Impossible movie now has a title, a trailer, and, of course, Tom Cruise running. To jump-start our week, Tom Cruise, Paramount Pictures, and Skydance released a new trailer for their upcoming film, Mission: Impossible -The Final Reckoning. Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is the direct sequel to the 2023 film Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning. Like its predecessor, this film sees Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt contend with a rogue AI hellbent on pitting the world's surveillance and military-grade weaponry against itself. You can check out the trailer, which, in typical Mission: Impossible style, showcases Cruise running throughout and fighting baddies in increasingly perilous set pieces like the wings of a biplane. The official synopsis for The Final Reckoning doesn't reveal much about where the characters are in its ensuing plot from where we left off in Dead Reckoning. Instead, it opts to sell people on the film by way of Cruise's goodwill alone. It reads, "Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning." Going off the trailer's almost somber mood, The Final Reckoning teases that the film will... well, bring some finality to the series' eight movies. There's a lot of putting the fate of the entire world on Ethan's shoulders, a lot of reminders that he always puts the people he cares about first, and that might cost him. There is, of course, lots of Tom Cruise running in that way he runs. Rather than selling the film on a sense of bookending the franchise, its press release seems more hellbent on reminding people that Cruise is wearing the same wardrobe he did while "performing the epic stunt for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games closing ceremony." For those that noticed, good on you. But for those reading between the lines, this can likely mean that moviegoers should expect yet another wild ass stunt for the 62-year-old actor to stun us with whenever the film's promos get to the behind-the-scenes stunt portion of its press cycle Other than the fact that the film will see Angela Bassett will re-join its castâ€"reprising her role as CIA chief Erika Sloane from 2018's Falloutâ€"The Final Reckoning sees the return of Cruise, Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga, Henry Czerny, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, and Fredrick Schmidt.

First Mission: Impossible 8 Teaser Trailer Has Tom Cruise Hanging Off Planes...Again

The movies are back. Tom Cruise will run, fight, and put his life at unnecessary risk to perform impressive feats of old Hollywood stardom in Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning, according to a new teaser trailer for the 2025 blockbuster. Arriving two years after the elegantly titled Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, the eighth film in the espionage franchise will pick up where that movie left off in Ethan Hunt and co.'s fight against a rogue AI threatening geopolitical stability and world peace from a lost Russian submarine somewhere in the Arctic. Multiple characters including Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge, the IMF director who memorably antagonized Hunt in the original 1996 movie, narrate the new trailer to set up the stakes and quickly summarize decades of Tom Cruise's hero always narrowly saving the day at ever-increasing levels of international risk. The trailer shows Hunt's hacker accomplices Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) back at his side along with new recruit Grace (Hayley Atwell), who was first introduced in Dead Reckoning as a thief who later turned IMF agent. With both pieces of the key to the submarine housing the rogue AI, the crew attempt to get onboard and disable the all-predicting, ephemeral nemesis while everyone and everything that could possible get in their way seems to do exactly that. Unlike its predecessor, Final Reckoning wasn't filmed during the pandemic and will hopefully showcase more of the franchise's charismatic ensemble cast actually acting together at the same locations and sets. Mission Impossible 8 also clearly carries on Cruise's recent penchant for spectacular stunts. The new trailer shows him hanging off the side of a small airplane shortly after takeoff as he fights with the pilot inside. And while the title and trailer certainly make it seem like this could be Ethan Hunt's last rodeo, Cruise himself doesn't seem to have any plans of stepping away from the character in the near-future. The 61-year old cinephile and life-long A-lister said last year that he might go the Indiana Jones route. "Harrison Ford is a legend; I hope to be still going; I've got 20 years to catch up with him," Cruise said amid last summer's Barbenheimer-mania. "I hope to keep making Mission: Impossible films until I'm his age."

Mission: Impossible 8: The Final Reckoning's release date, trailer, cast and storyline

Tom Cruise's upcoming movie, Mission: Impossible 8, now titled The Final Reckoning, has revealed its first trailer and official release date. The film, originally intended as a follow-up to Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, is scheduled to premiere in May 2025. The title of the eighth Mission: Impossible movie is The Final Reckoning. This title replaces the original designation as Part Two of the previous movie, Dead Reckoning. The movie is scheduled for release on May 23, 2025. Also Read: This Democrat asks Biden to resign, appoint Harris as first female US President Several key actors are set to return in this installment. Angela Bassett reprises her role as Erika Sloane, CIA Director, first introduced in Mission: Impossible - Fallout. Esai Morales, who plays the antagonist Gabriel, returns after his appearance in Dead Reckoning. Morales's character is set on finding The Entity, an AI program with significant implications. The cast also includes familiar faces like Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Hayley Atwell and Vanessa Kirby. Hannah Waddingham, Janet McTeer, Holt McCallany, Katy O'Brian, Nick Offerman and Tramell Tillman join the franchise. The Final Reckoning follows Ethan Hunt, played by Cruise, as he confronts a powerful AI threat. This AI, known as The Entity, has the potential to create catastrophic outcomes if it falls into the wrong hands. In Dead Reckoning, Ethan discovered that The Entity is hidden on an old Russian submarine, setting up the primary conflict of the new movie. Also Read: This Democrat asks Biden to resign, appoint Harris as first female US President Ethan must face not only the AI but also his old adversary, Gabriel, who is also pursuing The Entity. This dual threat poses new challenges for Ethan as he races against time. Here is the trailer. When will Mission: Impossible 8 be released? Mission: Impossible 8, titled The Final Reckoning, is scheduled for release on May 23, 2025. Who returns in Mission: Impossible 8? Tom Cruise, Angela Bassett, Esai Morales, Simon Pegg and other key cast members return, with new actors joining the franchise.