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MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 8 DEAD RECKONING Part 2 (2025)
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The plot thickens! And possibly freezes! Part One is due in cinemas on 14 July this year, while we'll have to wait until 28 June 2024 for Part Two.

 

When it comes to the modern Mission: Impossible movies, you can forget the big Hollywood trade magazines. Writer/director Christopher McQuarrie is your main source for casting news. And he's put out the latest update, with word that actor Rolf Saxon is aboard the still-filming eighth entry Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 2.

 

Saxon is a throwback to the original 1996 M:I movie, as he played CIA Analyst William Donloe, the who was supposed to be watching highly classified documents before Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt drops from the ceiling and steals them in one of the most iconic moments of that outing.

 

Donloe's punishment for his failure? Reassignment to a chilly substation in Alaska.

 

It marks the latest in connective tissue to the first film, since we already know that Henry Czerny is back as Eugene Kittridge, who suspects Hunt is a mole. From the looks of the initial Dead Reckoning Part One trailer, Kittridge will be even more of a problem this time.

 

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Following completion of Part One, the production immediately set off for South Africa and the Arctic (yes, the actual Arctic) to get the follow-up underway. "Tom and I are always trying to get the big mess out of the way first," director Christopher McQuarrie explains to Empire, in our world-exclusive new issue. “South Africa was intense. The aerial sequence is…” He pauses. “It’s just outrageous. The thing to remember as you’re watching this monster [aka. Part One] is that another monster waits behind it.” If those monsters are the incredible feats of cinematic spectacle that we’re hoping they are, then they’re definitely not the kind to be afraid of.

 

With regards to that aforementioned aerial sequence, it seems baffling to think that Tom Cruise could possibly compete with the crazy plane antics he displayed in last year’s Top Gun: Maverick – but, Cruise tells us, for him, the mantra is always "We can do better." The star whispers it to McQuarrie after every Mission debut screening, and, Cruise says, "He knows it’s true. Since I was a young actor, people go, ‘Well, what do you do next?’ There’s always another mountain to climb. Always.”

 

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