Tom Cruise has chosen to accept his latest mission of topping his last two massive outings, Mission: Impossible – Fallout and the immensely popular Top Gun: Maverick. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is the latest chapter for the globe-trotting espionage adventures of Ethan Hunt and his team at the IMF. The production for the film suffered COVID delays but marched on with Cruise and his director Christopher McQuarrie concocting more thrilling action set pieces to add to Cruise’s list of death-defying stunts.
Paramount has unveiled a gallery of character posters that showcase the impressive ensemble of actors that are hitching a ride with Cruise in this entry. The character posters include Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, Hayley Atwell as Grace, Ving Rhames as Luther, Simon Pegg as Benji, Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa, Vanessa Kirby as the White Widow, Esai Morales as Gabriel, Pom Klementieff as Paris, Henry Czerny as Kittridge, Mariela Garriga as Marie, Shea Whigham as Briggs, Greg Tarzan Davis as Degas and Cary Elwes as Denlinger.
The official synopsis from Paramount reads,
In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan’s past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission – not even the lives of those he cares about most.
This entry is once again directed by Cruise collaborator Christopher McQuarrie, and he pens the script along with Erik Jendresen. The film is produced by Cruise and McQuarrie. Executive producers on the film include David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger, Tommy Gormley, Chris Brock and Susan E. Novick.
Tickets are now on sale for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, which also has been shot for the IMAX format. And the film is due to hit theaters on July 12.