After a troubled production, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 updates are well on the way, and Tom Cruises's next outing as Ethan Hunt shows time hasn't slowed down either the actor or the character he plays when it comes to death-defying stunts and high octane action. The Tom Cruise-led sequel is the seventh movie in the action spy franchise which follows in the footsteps of 2018's Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Dead Reckoning will see the return of Cruise as super spy Ethan Hunt along with some familiar allies, dangerous new threats, and of course, some wild stunts. Thanks to the continued critical and commercial success of the franchise, the new Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning part 1 updates has been eagerly awaited.
Historically, Mission: Impossible movies have been notable for their spectacular stunt work — often with Cruise himself risking life and limb in order to make the scenes look as authentic as possible. Following the Oscar-nominated success of Top Gun: Maverick, Cruise and the team look to be delivering even more high-octane entertainment. After becoming the franchise's first returning director in Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Christopher McQuarrie returns for the third time. As the title suggests, this is the first part of the two-part story, however, given the exciting Mission Impossible: Dead ReckoningPart 1 updates that have been coming out, the sequel will certainly not be holding anything back.
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Mission: Impossible 7 Latest News
The most recent Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 updates arrive in the form of a new featurette and character posters (via Collider). The posters don't give anything away, but they do confirm that certain characters will have more prominent roles than first expected. Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Hayley Atwell, and, of course, Tom Cruise, all have close-up character posters. Another new and surprisingly minimal Mission: Impossible 7 poster promotes seeing the movie in Screen X (via Discussing Film) too. A new behind-the-scenes featurette was released at the same time, which gives a bigger look at a Mission: Impossible 7 car chase in Rome.
Other recent Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 updates are troublesome to some, as those planning to catch the spectacle on IMAX screens during the summer may struggle. The movie will be released just one week before Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, which has been given exclusivity on most IMAX screens for three weeks. Cruise isn't happy about the Oppenheimer IMAX deal, as it means that Dead Reckoning will be hard to see in IMAX, and it'll damage the movie's box office potential. This has started something of a feud between Cruise and Nolan, and Cruise has been personally visiting multiplexes and showing the managers his movie, urging them to screen it in IMAX.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 is full of spectacular stunts that were made for the big screen. Showing the Mission: Impossible movie on every IMAX screen possible makes total sense for theatre owners too, as an R-rated three-hour drama about J. Robert Oppenheimer will unlikely be the huge blockbuster that Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 will be. Those Oppenheimer IMAX screenings weeks into the movie's release will likely be empty too. However, a deal is a deal, and it'll be hard for Paramount to navigate its way around the issue unless the studio delays the movie.
Mission: Impossible 7 Release Date
The most frequent Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 updates fans have heard are the endless new release dates. Thankfully, after many delays, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 has locked down a date of July 12, 2023. The current release date for the new Mission: Impossible follows several previous release dates of July 23, 2021, November 19, 2022, and May 27, 2022, and September 30, 2022.
Though the movie might struggle to compete with Oppenheimer in the IMAX, Mission: Impossible 7 has gotten a lucrative release date in China of July 14 (via THR), which is the same date as the movie's wide release. China is constantly becoming a bigger and bigger market for blockbuster movies, and it's a huge market where films can gross hundreds of millions of dollars in that territory alone. With that in mind, the Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 release date could help its chances of becoming Cruise's second billion-dollar-grossing movie in a row.
After such a long wait for the next Mission: Impossible movie, it's been a relief to many eager fans of the franchise to learn it's being shot back-to-back with Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 2. This means the sequel to Mission: Impossible 7, possibly Tom Cruise's final Mission: Impossible, will be released only a little over a year later on July 28, 2024. In addition, Mission: Impossible —Dead Reckoning will be made available on streaming service Paramount+ 45 days after its theatrical release.
Despite having a rocky production journey, the new Tom Cruise Mission: Impossible movie has been confirmed for a while. Following the success of Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Tom Cruise announced in January 2019 that Mission: Impossible 7 and Mission: Impossible 8 would be filmed back-to-back. The filming of the movie was a long process given COVID-19 restrictions and the various shooting locations, but filming officially wrapped in September 2021.
The official runtime for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 has been confirmed, and it clocks in at two hours and 36 minutes without credits, which means that it'll likely be around 165 minutes with credits. This makes it the longest Mission: Impossible movie, beating the 147-minute Mission: Impossible - Fallout. However, it could have been even longer, as producers were concerned when they were struggling to cut it down from almost four hours.
Mission: Impossible 7 Cast
The Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning part 1 updates for the cast have promised a lot of familiar faces returning to the franchise along with some exciting new additions. As with every movie in the franchise, since it began in 1996, Tom Cruise will return to play IMF agent Ethan Hunt. The only other cast member to appear in every movie, Ving Rhames is also back alongside returning actors Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn, Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust, and Vanessa Kirby as Alanna Mitsopolis. Particularly exciting for fans is the return of Henry Czerny as former IMF Director Eugene Kittridge who was last seen in the first Mission: Impossible and made for a great foil for Hunt.
Among the new cast members, Hayley Atwell will be playing the mysterious character of Grace. Judging by the footage, she will be an ally of Hunt and will be getting in on a lot of the action, and has previously been described as "ambiguous." Esai Morales will play the movie's villain. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 star Pom Klementieff also plays an antagonist in the movie as well, although her name has yet to be revealed. McQuarrie teased that she "is somebody who, at the start of our story, is partnered with Esai and represents this malevolent force that Ethan is opposed to."
Other notable new additions to the cast include Cary Elwes, Indira Varma, Shea Whigam, Rob Delaney, and Mark Gatiss. After appearing as the villain in the last two movies, it doesn't appear as though Sean Harris will return as Solomon Lane in Mission: Impossible 7.
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Mission: Impossible 7 Story Details
Much like the details of Ethan Hunt's missions over the years, Mission Impossible: Dead ReckoningPart 1 updates have been kept quite secret at the moment. For the first few sequels, the Mission: Impossible franchise has generally kept each installment as a standalone adventure. Though Hunt and other characters return, the missions are new. Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation and Mission: Impossible — Fallout changed that somewhat with Solomon Lane being carried over as the villain. It doesn't appear that Mission: Impossible 7 will connect to those movies, but as part one of the two-part story, it will be setting the stage for potentially the biggest threat Hunt and his team have faced.
The latest trailer for the new Mission: Impossible movie offers a little more insight into the plot while still keeping things vague. There is a lot pointing to Hunt's past coming back to haunt him with Kittridge warning him that he cannot outrun it. It is also revealed that Hunt shares some history with Esai Morales' villain. His character might also hint at the bigger looming threat that can be set up for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 2 as he tells Hunt "You have no idea that power I represent."
Director Christopher McQuarrie recently confirmed that audiences won't see a romance between Ethan and Ilsa, something that has been teased in previous Mission: Impossible movies. The director explained, “The simple fact of the matter is you’re not making Mr & Mrs Smith, you’re making Mission: Impossible, and so the challenge comes in creating a relationship that is always evolving and never quite reaching what is a somewhat mundane resolution."
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Mission: Impossible 7 Trailer
The Mission: Impossible 7 update that fans have been waiting a long time for, the latest Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 trailer has arrived. Once again, the footage keeps the specifics of the plot rather vague and instead focuses on the intense action sequences that fans have come to expect from this franchise. However, the footage also reiterates the danger of this mission with the antagonists of the movie, Esai Morales and Henry Czerny reiterating how Ethan Hunt is risking losing everything with this latest mission. Of course, that in no way means that Hunt is going to back down.
The second full-length trailer for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 has been released, and while it doesn't shed too much light on the plot, it succeeds in getting fans excited to return to the high-octane action franchise. Once again, the footage shows off Mission: Impossible 7's motorcycle stunt but it also puts emphasis on the equally exciting train sequence that looks to be the climax of the movie. In terms of the story, it hints at Hunt's past coming back to haunt him while also showing Hunt putting himself on the line to protect his team, saying "Your life will always matter more to me than my own."
The newly released behind-the-scenes featurette for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 gives a more detailed look at the praised sequence that was screened at Cinemacon - the Rome car chase. The featurette details how Cruise committed to the sequence by actually training to drive one-handed while handcuffed to another person. The clip also showcases the tiny yellow Fiat that was tampered with to make faster. McQuarrie explains in the featurette that everything in the scene is completely practical and that it was the hardest thing he's ever hard to shoot, which is a big claim from the man who has shot HALO jumps and Cruise hanging off the edge of a plane.
Key Release Dates
- Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part OneRelease Date:2023-07-12
