Close on the heels of the rapturous reception to `Top Gun: Maverick` at the Cannes Film Festival, another Tom Cruise action franchise is back, with the first trailer of `Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning: Part One` being dropped on Monday evening by Paramount Pictures.
`Dead Reckoning`, reports `Variety`, is the seventh entry in the spy thriller series, which stars Cruise as Ethan Hunt, a special agent of the Impossible Missions Force (IMF).
The trailer shows the return of several `Mission: Impossible` series cast members, including franchise stalwart Ving Rhames, more recent additions Simon Pegg and Rebecca Ferguson, and `Fallout` star Vanessa Kirby. In addition, the trailer shows the return of Henry Czerny, who appeared in the original 1996 `Mission: Impossible` as IMF director Eugene Kittridge. He`s shown having a tense meeting with Cruise`s Hunt.
“Your days of fighting for the so-called `Greater Good` are over,” Czerny says to Cruise in the trailer, according to `Variety`. “This is our chance to control the truth. The concepts of right and wrong, for everyone for centuries to come. You`re fighting to save an ideal that doesn`t exist. It never did. You need to pick a side.”
Several action set pieces are teased in the trailer, including a sniper battle during a desert storm, a fistfight in a nightclub and a chase atop a moving train. The trailer closes with a dramatic shot of Cruise, famous for doing his own stunts in the franchise, driving a motorcycle off a cliff and skydiving into the air below.
`Dead Reckoning` is written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who previously helmed `Rogue Nation` in 2015 and `Fallout` in 2018. `Part One`, co-produced by Cruise, and scheduled for a July 14, 2023, release, will be followed by `Dead Reckoning: Part Two` in 2024, which is expected to be the final appearance of Cruise as Ethan Hunt.
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