“Mission: Impossible 8” Release Date, Cast and Trailer

• The first look at “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” shows Tom Cruise on the run again.
• The ominous story suggests that “The Final Reckoning” could be the end for Cruise’s character.
• Here’s what we know about the eighth ‘Mission: Impossible’ movie.

“Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” is the second part of the story that started in 2023 “Dead reckoning part one”, in which Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) raced across the world to stop an all-powerful AI.

The sequel is the eighth “Mission: Impossible” film to star Tom Crossand the first trailer for the 2025 film suggests this story could be the end for his character.

The public came in droves to watch Cruise performs deadly stunts throughout its career, but the ‘Mission: Impossible’ franchise prides itself on raising the bar with increasingly daring action sequences in each film.

It’s a move that has paid off for Paramount, which has made more than $4 billion worldwide from the series since the first film was released in 1996.

The first trailer for “The Final Reckoning” was released on Monday. It showed more adrenaline-fueled sequences as Hunt and his team of spies hunt for a sunken submarine that houses the AI, known only as ‘the Entity’.

Here’s what we know about the eighth ‘Mission: Impossible’ movie.

The first trailer for “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” teases the death of Tom Cruise’s character

The trailer shows Hunt trying to break into the sunken submarine to destroy the Entity. Much of the action appears to take place underwater in and around the submarine’s icy location.

The footage also shows off some of the dazzling stunts in the sequel. In addition to the obligatory chases and brutal hand-to-hand combat, there is also a scene in which Hunt dangles from a yellow biplane.

The trailer ends with Hunt telling an unknown person, “I want you to trust me one last time.”

In 2023, Cruise told the Sydney Morning Herald that he would happily star in the Mission: Impossible films until he was eighty. But the trailer for “The Final Reckoning” seems to set up an ending for his character.

Whether he is written out or killed remains to be seen.

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“Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” will be released in theaters in May 2025

The previous film, ‘Dead Reckoning’, left fans on a cliffhanger in July 2023, when Hunt stole the key that would give him access to the Entity of the film’s mysterious villain, Gabriel (Esai Morales), who also returns for the new sequel.

But the wait is almost over. “The Final Reckoning” will hit theaters on May 23, 2025.

Tom Cruise is joined by the cast of “Dead Reckoning” with a few new faces

Most of the main cast from ‘Dead Reckoning’ return in the sequel, including Hayley Atwell as thief Grace, Simon Pegg as technology expert Benji Dunn, Ving Rhames as hacker Luther Stickell and Pom Klementieff as assassin-turned-ally Paris .

Angela Bassett reprises her role as CIA Director Erika Sloane, and Vanessa Kirby returns as arms dealer Alanna Mitsopolis alongside Frederick Schmidt as her brother Zola. Shea Whigham and Greg Tarzan Davis also return to play intelligence agents Jasper Briggs and Degas, respectively.

It is unknown whether Rebecca Ferguson will return to play Ilsa Faust, who was apparently killed in ‘Dead Reckoning’. Many fans have speculated that Ilsa faked her death to fool the Entity, but only time will tell if she actually survived.

Cruise and the gang are also joined by a handful of new characters played by familiar faces. ‘Ted Lasso’ star Hannah Waddingham“The Mandalorian” star Katy O’Brian and “Severance” star Tramell Tillman all have unknown roles in the sequel.

Parks & Recreation alum Nick Offerman stars as Sydney, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, alongside Mindhunter star Holt McCallany as Bernstein, the U.S. Secretary of Defense.

Fans of the original ‘Mission: Impossible’ film will be happy to hear that Rolf Saxon also returns to reprise his role as CIA analyst William Donloe. The character played a key role in Cruise’s memorable heist scene in the original 1996 film, in which he breaks into the CIA.