Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning new trailer sends Ethan Hunt on what may be his last mission (2025)

Six years have passed since Tom Cruise announced that the seventh and eighth films in theMission: Impossiblefranchise would be shot back-to-back, and he has been in production on these films for a long time. We sawMission: Impossible – Dead Reckoningback in 2024, and now the follow-up,Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, is almost ready to make its way out into the world, heading toward aMay 23rd release date. Just a few days ago, Cruise showed a new trailer for the film to the audience at the CinemaCon event in Las Vegas – and now that new trailer has dropped online! You can check it out in the embed above.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoningtellsthe second half of the story that began inMission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, with Ethan Hunt out to destroy an AI system called The Entity, which is housed in a sunken Russian stealth submarine.Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation,Mission: Impossible – Fallout, andDead Reckoningwriter/directorChristopher McQuarrieremains at the helm, working from a screenplay he crafted with Erik Jendresen. The official synopsis is very simple: Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

Cruiseis being joined in the cast by Hayley Atwell, reprising herDead Reckoningrole of thief-turned-IMF-recruit Grace; Vanessa Kirby as arms dealer Alanna Mitsopolis, a.k.a. the White Widow, a character who was previously seen in bothFalloutandDead Reckoning; Ving Rhames as IMF agent Luther Stickell, who has been part of this franchise sincethe firstMission: Impossiblemoviein 1996; Simon Pegg as IMF agent Benji Dunn, who joined the party back inMission: Impossible III; Henry Czerny as CIA director Eugene Kittridge, who was introduced inMission: Impossible(1996) and finally made his long-awaited return inDead Reckoning; Rolf Saxon as William Donloe, a CIA analyst who got in trouble after Ethan Hunt accessed his computer way back in the firstMission: Impossible; and moreDead Reckoningreprisals: Esai Morales as the Entity-serving terrorist Gabriel; Pom Klementieff as Gabriel’s former ally Paris; Shea Whigham and Greg Tarzan Davis as US Intelligence agents Briggs and Degas; Mariela Garriga as Marie, a mysterious woman from Ethan and Gabriel’s past; Mark Gatiss and Charles Parnell as the heads of the NSA and NRO;. There are also a handful of new additions to the franchise: Holt McCallany as Secretary of Defense Bernstein; Nick Offerman as Sydney, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Katy O’Brian, Stephen Oyoung, Tramell Tillman, Janet McTeer, Hannah Waddingham, and Lucy Tulugarjuk in unspecified roles.

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