'Mission: Impossible 8' releases first trailer

The eighth installment of "Mission: Impossible" is titled "The Final Reckoning", starring Tom Cruise, and is scheduled to be released on May 23, 2025.

On November 11, Tom Cruise revealed the movie poster on his personal page, with the caption: "Every choice leads to this." Later, the actor posted the trailer, writing: "Our lives are the sum of our choices."

The video is action-packed, with Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt diving into a sunken submarine, flying through the air and jumping out of a plane. Actress Angela Bassett also returns as CIA director Erika Sloane, a character first seen in Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018).

The eighth installment is directed by Christopher McQuarrie, written by Bruce Geller and Erik Jendresen. In addition to Tom Cruise, the film stars Hannah Waddingham, Henry Czerny, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Pom Klementieff and Vanessa Kirby.

Cruise has said he wants to make movies. Mission: Impossible whether 80 or 100 years old. However, according to Hollywood Reporter , Paramount wants to promote the eighth installment as the final episode of the series to attract interest from the audience. Before its release in May next year, Paramount wants to bring this project worth nearly 400 million USD to premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

Poster "Mission: Impossible 8". Photo: Paramount Pictures

Trademark Mission: Impossible is a famous American spy television series, aired from 1966-1973, 1988-1989. In 1996, director Brian De Palma decided to bring the story of the intelligence organization Impossible Mission Force (IMF) to the big screen, starring Tom Cruise. To date, the six films have grossed 3.8 billion USD, making it the 18th highest-grossing film series in the history of world cinema.

In the nearest part - Dead Reckoning Part 1 , Ethan Hunt and his team of IMF agents must track down a new weapon that threatens the world, before it falls into the wrong hands. Faced with a mysterious enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing is more important than his mission, including the lives of his loved ones. The project scored a "fresh" score of 94% on Rotten Tomatoes , grossing $571 million worldwide. "For a series that has spanned three decades, Mission: Impossible still maintains incredible consistency," page Hollywood Reporter comment.

Tom Cruise , 62 years old, is 1.7 m tall and weighs about 68 kg. The actor is known as the "ageless man" in Hollywood, his appearance has not changed much over time. The actor does not use social networks and rarely shares about his private life since his noisy divorce with Katie Holmes in 2012. According to SCMP , Tom Cruise is the highest-paid actor in the world in 2022, in the film industry alone.

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