Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Production Crew
Directed by	Christopher McQuarrie
Produced by	Tom Cruise
Screenplay by	Christopher McQuarrie Erik Jendresen
Based on	Mission: Impossible  by Bruce Geller
Music by	Lorne Balfe
Cinematography	Fraser Taggart
Edited by	Eddie Hamilton
Production Company	Skydance TC Productions
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Information
Released	May 23, 2025
Runtime	TBA
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	400 million
Gross	TBA
Chronology
Previous	Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
Next	-

“	Everything you were... everything you've done... has come to this.	”
–Eugene Kittridge

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (previously titled as Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part Two) is the eighth installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise and the direct sequel to Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning. The film is set to be released on May 23, 2025. It was previously set for release on August 5, 2022, but was delayed to November 4, 2022, July 7, 2023, June 28, 2024, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and then to the current date due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. The first trailer for the film was released on November 11, 2024.

Plot

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Cast

• Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt
• Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell
• Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn
• Vanessa Kirby as Alanna Mitsopolis
• Hayley Atwell as Grace
• Pom Klementieff as Paris
• Shea Whigham as Jasper Briggs
• Angela Bassett as Erika Sloane
• Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge
• Esai Morales as Gabriel
• Greg Tarzan Davis as Degas
• Holt McCallany as Bernstein
• Nick Offerman as Sydney
• Janet McTeer as TBA
• Charles Parnell as NRO Representative
• Mark Gatiss as NSA Representative
• Rob Delaney as JSOC Representative
• Indira Varma as DIA Representative
• Hannah Waddingham
• Mariela Garriga as Marie
• Rolf Saxon as William Donloe
• Lucy Tulugarjuk
• Tommie Earl Jenkins as Colonel Burdick
• Katy O'Brian
• Tramell Tillman
• Stephen Oyoung

Production

Announced in 2019, and titled as Dead Reckoning Part Two, the film was supposed to be shot back-to-back with Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. In September 2019, director Christopher McQuarrie confirmed on social media that Hayley Atwell will join the cast. Paramount decided not to move forward with shooting back-to-back, and production on Part Two began in March 2022, just 14 months before Part One would release. After several delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film was given a release date of June 28, 2024.

In 2023, the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and radio Artists (WGA and SAG-AFTRA) commenced strikes. The strikes impacted major productions on both TV shows and movies, forcing some to shift to later dates and some to shut down production completely. It was initially rumored that filming for Part Two was suspended due to the WGA strike, but this turned out to be false as McQuarrie was waiting for the promotions to finish on Part One. Unfortunately, filming was suspended in July 2023 due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. Despite this, McQuarrie has revealed that "We’ve shot all but one of our international locations", and that much of the film has been finished.

In late 2023, three months after Part One released, McQuarrie announced that the film would no longer be titled as Dead Reckoning Part Two, but did not reveal the new title. It was also announced that same month that, due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, the movie was pushed back to May 23, 2025. Production resumed in March 2024, but delayed due to a malfunction of a submarine. 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. According to an interview between Cruise and Paramount as per Hollywood Reporter in November 2024, the film has currently wrapped filming and is currently in post-production.

It will be 29 years since Tom Cruise joined the franchise and played Ethan Hunt, and despite Part One and Two being billed as a send off to Ethan Hunt, Cruise has expressed making more Mission Impossible films. In November 2024, Paramount has expressed interest in marketing the film as the final entry in the Mission Impossible franchise to boost audience interest but Tom Cruise is against a public goodbye to the character.

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.

Release

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is scheduled to be released on May 23, 2025. It was previously set for release on August 5, 2022, but was delayed to November 4, 2022, July 7, 2023, June 28, 2024, 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.

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. 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. 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.

Gallery

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Title Poster before the name was changed.

Mission- Impossible – The Final Reckoning - Teaser Trailer (2025 Movie) - Tom Cruise

Trivia

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