Ethan Hunt is pulling out all of the stops to pull off his potential final adventure in the newMission: Impossible - The Final Reckoningtrailer. The next installment in the long-running action franchise will serve as the conclusion to the two-part story that began inDead Reckoning, with Ethan and his crew racing to stop The Entity from being unleashed and sparking a nuclear war. Alongside Tom Cruise, the ensembleMission: Impossible — The Final Reckoningcastsees the returns of Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny and Angela Bassett.
With just over a month left until the blockbuster hits theaters,Paramount Pictureshas unveiled a new trailer forMission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning. The video showcases some of the major action sequences to come from the sequel, namely Ethan hanging on to a plane as it soars through the sky, whilealso seemingly teasing a change in the relationship between him and Kittridge(Czerny), which involves them being more allies than enemies. Check out the trailer below:
What This Means For Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Ethan’s Next Mission Will Feature One Big Change
Kittridge has always been a somewhat slippery figure in theMission: Impossiblemovies. He wasn’t a true villain in the original 1996 movie or inDead Reckoning, but he has generally been an antagonist for Ethan, attempting to reign in Cruise’s operative and exert control.The fact that Ethan and Kittridge could be working together inThe Final Reckoningspeaks to the size and scale of the threat facing the world this time around, with Ethan seemingly the only person who can be trusted to stop annihilation on a global scale.
Mission: Impossible 8 Is Delivering The Version Of Kittridge Dead Reckoning Needed
While Kittridge was an ally to Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, it looks like he could be a villain in The Final Reckoning.
Ethan has, over the past seven movies, often gone rogue or operated outside the lines of what government agencies would consider acceptable. With Kittridge now in his corner in theMission: Impossible – The Final Reckoningstory, he will seemingly have more resources than ever before, withHolt McCallany’s new character asking, incredulously, “You gave him an aircraft carrier?“McCallany is one of several new cast members featured in the trailer, along with Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Tramell Tillman, and Katy O’Brian.
Rolf Saxon will also be returning inThe Final Reckoningas William Donloe, the CIA analyst that Hunt outsmarts in the originalMission: Impossible.
As is customary with each newMission: Impossiblemovie,The Final Reckoninglooks to feature Cruise’s most dangerous and extreme stunts yet. The sequence involving Cruise clinging to the outside of a biplane, which was filmed in South Africa, is, by itself, a major upping of the ante after theDead Reckoningending, but it also looks likeCruise and director Christopher McQuarrie are attempting some ambitious action underwater involving the Sevastopol submarine.
Ethan often finds himself with few people he can trust on his missions, and it will be interesting to see him working with the backing of the government this time around. If past movies are any indication, though,whatever alliance that exists between him and Kittridge probably won’t last for the entire movie. It still has not been explicitly confirmed whetherMission: Impossible –The Final Reckoningwill be the last mission for Hunt, but the latest trailer suggests that, if it is, Cruise will be going out with a bang.
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning follows Ethan Hunt and his team as they pursue a formidable AI called the Entity that has compromised global intelligence networks. With new allies and a haunting figure from Hunt’s past in pursuit, they must act quickly to avert a global catastrophe.
