Mission: Impossible 8 is heading to theaters in just a few weeks, and fans are wondering if this is really the last mission (should he choose to accept it) for Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt. With a new trailer for the officially titled Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning released on April 7, we have tons of details and footage of the upcoming action movie to unpack.
The stakes have never been higher than in the eighth movie in the beloved action franchise, which follows directly from the events of 2023's Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. So, if you want to keep up to speed with the new movie, you're not alone. Below, we've compiled everything you need to know about the Mission: Impossible 8 release date, cast, plot theories, trailers, and more.
Mission: Impossible 8 release date
We don't have too long to wait for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning as it will be released in theaters on May 23, 2025.
The original plan had been for the movie to arrive much earlier in 2022 with Cruise planning to film it back-to-back with Mission: Impossible 7. However, that didn't end up happening and filming on the second part only began in March 2022. Production was put on hold during the writers' strike and actors' strikes of 2023, resuming in 2024 and finally wrapping that summer.
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Mission: Impossible 8 trailer
A new trailer for Mission: Impossible 8 was released on April 7, 2025 and it's a beauty. In the clip above, we see tons of stunts, action, and get more insight into all the drama that's awaiting Ethan and his team after the fallout of the previous movie.
The teaser has a lengthy runtime of over two minutes; however, don't worry, not a lot of story was shown, nor any big action spoilers. You'll still be ready to go in May even after watching the clip so make sure to check it out for yourself!
Mission: Impossible 8 cast
Most of the major surviving cast from Mission: Impossible 7 are returning for the latest outing, including Cruise back as Ethan Hunt alongside Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, and Hayley Atwell. Vanessa Kirby is also back as The White Widow alongside Esai Morales as Gabriel.
Alongside the returning cast, some new faces have joined as well, including Lucy Tulugarjuk, Katy O'Brian, Tramell Tillman, Hannah Waddingham, and Stephen Oyoung. However, one cast member who is unlikely to come back is Rebecca Ferguson, after her character Ilsa Faust was killed in Mission: Impossible 7. That being said though, stranger things have happened in this franchise…
Check out the full confirmed cast list below.
- Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt
- Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell
- Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn
- Hayley Atwell as Grace
- Vanessa Kirby as Alanna Mitsopolis / White Widow
- Esai Morales as Gabriel
- Pom Klementieff as Paris
- Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge
- Mariela Garriga as Marie
- Holt McCallany as Bernstein
- Nick Offerman as Sydney
- Angela Bassett as Erika Sloane
- Shea Whigham as Jasper Briggs
- Greg Tarzan Davis as Degas
- Frederick Schmidt as Zola Mitsopolis
- Rolf Saxon as William Donloe
- Tommie Earl Jenkins as Colonel Burdick
Mission: Impossible 8 plot speculation
No official synopsis for Mission: Impossible 8 has been announced yet, but we know it will pick up in the wake of Mission: Impossible 7's ending which saw Ethan go to extreme lengths to secure the crucial key. As we learned towards the end of that movie, the key unlocks a chamber inside the Sevastopol – a high tech Russian submarine. Inside the chamber is the Entity's source code, which can be used to help destroy it. The IMF team will likely dedicate much of Mission: Impossible 8 to locating the submarine and completing this mission before it's too late.
Those involved in the movie haven't teased too much about it yet either. However, Simon Pegg did hint at the scale of the latest installment in an interview on Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum back in November 2024. "It's bananas. It's absolutely bananas," he said. "What he does in this one, it boggles the mind. I think this one is the best one ever. And I'm not just saying that because it's like, 'Oh you've got to say it.'"
For more, check out our ranking of the best Mission: Impossible movies and our breakdown of how to watch the Mission: Impossible movies in order.
