"Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning" Will Be Longest in Franchise

The final “Mission: Impossible” will be the longest film in the Tom Cruise-lead franchise.

A source close to production revealed that “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” will have the longest runtime in the action franchise. 

The movie is being touted as the final entry in the franchise that began in 1996.

“Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” will reportedly clock in at 2 hours and 49 minutes. That runtime beats out the last movie – “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning” – which ran for 2 hours and 42 minutes. 

Christopher McQuarrie returns to direct after steering “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation,” “Mission: Impossible – Fallout” and “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.” 

The eighth installment in the franchise was initially titled “Dead Reckoning Part Two” but after the box office underperformance of the previous movie, Paramount retitled this movie to “The Final Reckoning.”

The plot of “The Final Reckoning” is being kept under wraps for the most part but with the big AI-based cliffhanger from “Dead Reckoning”.

Alongside Cruise, the star-studded cast includes Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Mariela Garriga, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Tramell Tillman, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Mark Gatiss, Rolf Saxon, Lucy Tulugarjuk, and Angela Bassett.

“Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” opens in theaters on May 23.