By the time Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One hits theaters next year, it will have been five years since Ethan Hunt’s last globe-trotting adventure. Audiences are clearly hungry to see Tom Cruise risk life and limb yet again, and while the release of the next Mission: Impossible movie is still seven months out, it was announced that an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the film will be released in IMAX theaters this weekend.
Judging by the short clip promoting the Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One IMAX exclusive sneak peek, we’ll get a good look at what Tom Cruise has described as his most dangerous stunt yet. The actor drove a motorcycle off the edge of a cliff at top speed before leaping off and deploying a parachute. “If the wind was too strong, it would blow me off the ramp,” Cruise said. “The helicopter [filming the stunt] was a problem, because I didn’t want to be hammering down that ramp at top speed and get hit by a stone. Or if I departed in a weird way, we didn’t know what was going to happen with the bike. I had about six seconds once I departed the ramp to pull the chute and I don’t want to get tangled in the bike. If I do, that’s not going to end well.“
In addition to Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One also features Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell, Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn, Rebecca Ferguson as Ila Faust, Hayley Atwell as Grace, Vanessa Kirby as Alanna Mitsopolis, Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge, Shea Whigham as Jasper Briggs, Frederick Schmidt as Zola Mitsopolis, and Esai Morales as the movie’s main villain. Pom Klementieff, Rob Delaney, Cary Elwes, Indira Varma, Mark Gatiss, Charles Parnell, Greg Davis, and Marcin Dorociński also appear.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One will hit theaters on July 14, 2023, followed by Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part Two on June 28, 2024. Nothing has been confirmed, but it’s expected that these films will serve as a sendoff for Tom Cruise’s character.