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. 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 previous installments.
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 for release in the United States on May 23, 2025, by Paramount Pictures.
Cast[]
- Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt
- 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
- Mariela Garriga as Marie
- Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge
- Holt McCallany as Secretary of Defense Bernstein
- Janet McTeer
- Nick Offerman as Sydney
- Hannah Waddingham
- Angela Bassett as Erika Sloane
- Shea Whigham as Jasper Briggs
- Greg Tarzan Davis as Degas
- Charles Parnell as the head of the NRO
- Frederick Schmidt as Zola Mitsopolis.
- Rolf Saxon as William Donloe
- Tommie Earl Jenkins as Colonel Burdick
- Mark Gatiss as the head of the NSA
- Indira Varma as the head of the DIA
- Lucy Tulugarjuk as a to-be-confirmed character
- Katy O'Brian as a to-be-confirmed character
- Tramell Tillman as a to-be-confirmed character
- Stephen Oyounghave as a to-be-confirmed character
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. However, in February 2021, Deadline Hollywood revealed that Paramount had decided to no longer move forward with that plan.
Casting[]
In September 2019, Hayley Atwell and Pom Klementieff joined the cast of the eighth installment. In December, Simon Pegg confirmed his return for the film, while Shea Whigham was also cast. 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. Vanessa Kirby also announced she was returning for both films. However, due to scheduling conflicts, Hoult was replaced by Esai Morales for both films. In July 2022, it was reported that Holt McCallany had joined the cast. In August, it was revealed Nick Offerman and Janet McTeer were also added to the cast. 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. In March 2024, Katy O'Brian joined the cast in an undisclosed role. In April 2024, Tramell Tillman was cast in an undisclosed role. In November 2024, it was revealed that Angela Bassett would reprise her role as CIA Director Erika Sloane from Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018).
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 (2023), due to that film's production and release schedule being delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. By November, McQuarrie was in the process of rewriting the film. On March 23, 2022, The Hollywood Reporter reported the beginning of principal photography of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two. 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. The crew then moved to Apulia in Italy to continue filming aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush. 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. 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. Filming was officially suspended in July due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. The film returned to production in March 2024, though in May, encountered a delay due to a submarine malfunction. 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. In July 2024, 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 The Hollywood Reporter in November 2024, the film has wrapped production and is currently in post-production.
Post-production[]
Industrial Light & Magic returns from Dead Reckoning to produce the visual effects, with Clear Angle Studios and Halon Entertainment as the additional vendors for lidar, cyber scanning and previsualization. In October 2023, Dead Reckoning Part Two was removed as the film's subtitle, and the new subtitle was confirmed as The Final Reckoning in November 2024.
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, 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, which was delayed to December 2025.
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 (2022) 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 on phone.
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