"Mission: Impossible 8" Gets Official Title, First Trailer & Poster

The official title for Tom Cruise‘s eighth “Mission: Impossible” movie has finally been revealed along with the first trailer.

The eighth entry, titled “The Final Reckoning" serves as “Part Two” to 2023’s “Dead Reckoning” and is scheduled to be released on May 23, 2025.

The movie was originally set for 2022 but was delayed multiple times by the coronavirus pandemic and the SAG-AFTRA strike.

Cruise unveiled the title and a poster Monday morning, along with the caption “Every choice has led to this.”

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In the action-packed trailer, Cruise scuba dives and explores a wrecked submarine, flies and falls out of a biplane, and does a lot of running. Angela Bassett is also revealed to be back as CIA Director Erika Sloane after she first appeared in “Mission: Impossible – Fallout.”

In “Dead Reckoning,” Cruise’s Ethan Hunt finds himself up against a dangerous AI program called The Entity that seems to predict his every move and could cause disaster if it falls into the wrong hands. After escaping a calamitous train crash.

At the end of the movie, Ethan realizes The Entity is stashed aboard an old Russian submarine, but a foe from Ethan’s past named Gabriel (Esai Morales) is also on the trail.

Morales returns for the upcoming movie, in addition to Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Kirby, Pom Klementieff, Shea Whigham, Henry Czerny, Greg Tarzan Davis, Mariela Garriga, and Indira Varma. 

Newcomers to the franchise include Hannah Waddingham, Janet McTeer, Holt McCallany, Katy O’Brian, Nick Offerman and Tramell Tillman.

Christopher McQuarrie is back as director and co-writer after helming “Rogue Nation,” “Fallout” and “Dead Reckoning.” He previously collaborated with Cruise on the “Jack Reacher” franchise as well as “Top Gun: Maverick.” The script is written by McQuarrie, Bruce Geller and Erik Jendresen. 

Cruise and McQuarrie serve as producers, with Chris Brock, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Tommy Gormley, Don Granger, Susan Novick executive producing, and Gina Hallas co-producing.