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'''''Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning''''' is an American action spy film directed by [[Christopher McQuarrie]] from a screenplay he co-wrote with [[Erik Jendresen]]. The direct sequel to ''[[Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning]]'' (2023), it is the eighth installment in the ''[[Mission: Impossible (film series)|Mission: Impossible]]'' film series. [[Tom Cruise]], [[Hayley Atwell]], [[Ving Rhames]], [[Simon Pegg]], [[Vanessa Kirby]], [[Esai Morales]], [[Pom Klementieff]], [[Henry Czerny]], [[Angela Bassett]] and [[Rolf Saxon]] reprise their roles from previous installments.

In January 2019, Cruise announced that the seventh and eighth ''Mission: Impossible'' films would be shot back-to-back with McQuarrie writing and directing both films. Plans for the film later changed in February 2021. Returning and new cast members were announced soon after, and [[Lorne Balfe]], who composed the scores for two previous films in the series, returned to score the film. Filming began in March 2022 in the United Kingdom, with other filming locations including Malta, South Africa and Norway. Production was halted in July 2023 due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, and resumed in March 2024 before wrapping by November 2024. The film, originally titled ''Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two'', dropped its subtitle in October 2023, and the new subtitle for the film was announced in November 2024.

''The Final Reckoning'' was released in the United States on May 23, 2025, by [[Paramount Pictures]].

== Cast ==
* [[Tom Cruise]] as Ethan Hunt
* [[Hayley Atwell]] as Grace
* [[Ving Rhames]] as Luther Stickell
* [[Simon Pegg]] as Benji Dunn
* [[Vanessa Kirby]] as Alanna Mitsopolis
* [[Esai Morales]] as Gabriel
* [[Pom Klementieff]] as Paris
* [[Mariela Garriga]] as Marie
* [[Henry Czerny]] as Eugene Kittridge
* [[Holt McCallany]] as Secretary of Defense Bernstein
* [[Janet McTeer]] as Walters, the Secretary of Defense
* [[Nick Offerman]] as Sydney
* [[Hannah Waddingham]] as Rear Admiral Neely
* [[Angela Bassett]] as Erika Sloane
* [[Shea Whigham]] as Jasper Briggs
* [[Greg Tarzan Davis]] as Degas
* [[Charles Parnell]] as Richards, the head of the NRO
* [[Frederick Schmidt]] as Zola Mitsopolis.
* [[Rolf Saxon]] as William Donloe
* [[Tommie Earl Jenkins]] as Colonel Burdick
* [[Mark Gatiss]] as Angstrom, the head of the NSA
* [[Indira Varma]] as the head of the DIA
* [[Lucy Tulugarjuk]] as Tapeesa
* [[Katy O'Brian]] as Kodiak
* [[Tramell Tillman]] as Captain Bledsoe
* [[Stephen Oyounghave]] as Pills

== 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.

== Release ==
''Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning'' is scheduled to be released on May 23, 2025. It was previously set for release on August 5, 2022, but was delayed to November 4, July 7, 2023, June 28, 2024, and then to the current date as a result of the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, taking the original release date of ''[[The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants]]'', which was delayed to December 2025.

== Future ==
In June 2023, McQuarrie told Fandango that ''Dead Reckoning'' and ''The Final Reckoning'' would not necessarily end the series, and they were developing ideas for future installments. In July 2023, during promotion for ''Dead Reckoning'', Cruise expressed interest in continuing to make further films in the series as Ethan Hunt, despite both films having initially been billed as a send-off to the character, citing [[Harrison Ford]] playing [[Indiana Jones]] well until his late 70s. On November 12, 2024, insider Jeff Sneider reported that Cruise was looking at his ''[[Top Gun: Maverick]]'' (2022) co-star [[Glen Powell]] to replace him as the new lead. Powell denied this rumor on The Pat McAfee Show while Pat McAfee was congratulating him on phone.

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