Editing Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (section)

== 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 [[Mission: Impossible (film)|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]]'' (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.