No more speculation. It’s now official that “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” with director Christopher McQuarrie and star Tom Cruise, is heading to the Cannes Film Festival this May. This news settles weeks of rumblings that Paramount Pictures was aiming to go all-out to help promote the latest spy adventure.
As revealed by Deadline, the Hollywood blockbuster will be playing Out of Competition on May 14th.
“The Final Reckoning” will see Ethan Hunt and his cohorts looking to stop Gabriel and The Entity (an artificial intelligence threat) from causing more havoc and potentially a global conflict. The latter resides in a scuttled Russian submarine that happens to be located in freezing waters, leading to some claustrophobic underwater scenes.
McQuarrie co-wrote the sequel with Erik Jendresen (“Band of Brothers,” “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning”), and as the title suggests, this might be our last outing with Cruise’s super-spy Ethan Hunt of The Impossible Mission Force (IMF). That’s unless that is simply a marketing gimmick after the last film had a surprising box office dip of $591 million (a significant drop from the $791.6 million that “Fallout” earned). Both movies have seen their production costs balloon because of delays, extended shoots, and various COVID-related hiccups.
The insanely impressive cast assembled alongside Cruise for the eighth installment features Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Hayley Atwell, Esai Morales, Greg Tarzan, Janet McTeer, Katy O’Brian, Angela Bassett, Holt McCallany, Charles Parnell, Idira Varma, Shea Whigham, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Hannah Waddingham, Nick Offerman, and Tramell Tillman.
Fans won’t have to wait too much longer after the film’s Cannes debut as Paramount is unleashing “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” in theaters on May 23.
