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Mission: Impossible 8 hints at final chapter as title is confirmed in first teaser
Is this the end for Ethan Hunt?
Paramount
- David Craig
Published: Monday, 11 November 2024 at 3:51 pm
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Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, which has its first action-packed trailer that seems to bring the IMF agent's story full circle.
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The upcoming blockbuster picks up after the events of 2023's Dead Reckoning, in which an artificially intelligent entity using one of Ethan's oldest rivals as his pawn came to the forefront with a plan for global annihilation.
The film ended on a cliffhanger to be resolved in this follow-up, which appears to be positioning itself as the final instalment in the long-running franchise – heck, they even put 'final' right there in the title.
Of course, with franchise fare being omnipresent in today's filmmaking landscape, it's impossible to say for sure whether this is Ethan Hunt's last hurrah, but it certainly looks to be his toughest challenge yet.
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Mission: Impossible has become famous over the years for its jaw-dropping stunts, with Cruise often putting himself in death-defying situations, including performing a HALO jump from 25,000 feet for 2018's Fallout.
It appears that Cruise and co won't be slowing down for this latest chapter, with the teaser showing the Hollywood legend hanging off a plane in midair at one memorable moment.
And at the very end – heightening the sense of an ending – he asks his team to trust him "one last time" in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Will they all make it out alive?
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Among the stars returning from earlier entries are Hayley Atwell (What If...?), Ving Rhames (The Wild Robot), Simon Pegg (The Boys), Vanessa Kirby (Fantastic Four), Pom Klementieff (Guardians of the Galaxy) and Angela Bassett (Black Panther).
The trailer was accompanied by a teaser poster, which shows a bloodied and bruised Ethan Hunt in close-up, with a black-and-white filter applied to make it extra moody.
Tom Cruise stars in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. Paramount
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning comes to UK cinemas in May 2025.
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David CraigSenior Drama Writer
David Craig is the Senior Drama Writer for Radio Times, covering the latest and greatest scripted drama and comedy across television and streaming. Previously, he worked at Starburst Magazine, presented The Winter King Podcast for ITVX and studied Journalism at the University of Sheffield.
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