Mission: Impossible 7

Paramount Pictures has released the first trailer for their upcoming Mission Impossible film, Mission Impossible _ Dead Reckoning Part One.

Dead Reckoning continues the long-running, Tom Cruise-starring action spy film franchise that kicked off back with the 1996 film directed by Brian De Palma and based on the 1966 television series of the same name. The trailer showcases a handful of new action sequences, presumably to be expanded on in another, longer trailer, including motorcycle stunts, car chases, and plenty of Tom Cruise-centric, death-defying sequences that are sure to push stunts on film to their absolute limits. As it was said above, Dead Reckoning, as well as its already announced sequel Mission: Impossible 8, suffered delays back in January 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw both Cruise and the film's director Christopher McQuarrie contracting the virus during production in Italy. The seventh entry in the popular series was originally slated to premiere on September 30, 2022, with it now set to premiere in theaters worldwide on July 14, 2023.

Tom Cruise ups the stakes yet again in the gnarly Mission: Impossible 7 trailer.

Then there was the one about director Christopher McQuarrie and the film's producers' attempt to blow up a pre-WWII bridge in Poland (much to the distaste of local historians and railway enthusiasts). More bonkers still – the one about Cruise demanding, at the last minute, that a real-life submarine be procured for an action sequence, vastly exceeding the planned budget. First, there was the one about Tom Cruise berating crew members for obfuscating COVID protocol. After months and months of anticipation, the Mission: Impossible 7 trailer is finally here.

Attaching the first trailer for 'Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning part I' to 'Top Gun: Maverick' was too much for Tom Cruise to resist.

You’ve got Ving Rhames (from Mission: Impossible), Simon Pegg (from Mission: Impossible III), Rebecca Ferguson (from Rogue Nation) and Vanessa Kirby (from Fallout) alongside newbies Haley Atwell, Pom Klementieff and (to an unknown degree) the likes of Cary Elwes and a returning Czerny (who was Hunt’s justifiably pissed off supervisor in the first film). That's not a criticism. It’s amusing how the franchise has followed a near-identical path to the Harry Potter films, with a director-swapping series (Chris Columbus, Columbus, Alfonso Cuarón and Mike Newell/Brian DePalma, John Woo, J.J. Abrams and Brad Bird) over the first four films settling into a single filmmaker (David Yates = Christopher McQuarrie) who took over on film five and helmed the last four chapters, including a two-part finale. As for the spot, it’s a 130-second mood piece, with no dialogue save for Kittridge’s usual “You’re a fossil, Hunt, and your brand of super-heroics are stupid and dumb!” monologuing, which works because Henry Czerny is so good at playing that kind of scoundrel. The release of the much-anticipated Top Gun sequel, which is also Paramount’s last biggie until Damien Chazelle’s Babylon on December 25, was too good of a movie+preview match to pass up. Godzilla Vs. Kong dropped its first and only trailer in mid-January 2021, two months before its late-March global launch whereby it earned $100 million domestic (the first Covid-era release to do so) and $468 million worldwide. For example, Godzilla: King of the Monsters began its marketing at SDCC 2018 only to gross just $110 million domestic and $390 million worldwide in May of 2019.

'Dead Reckoning' is the third 'Mission Impossible' movie in the series to be directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Learn everything about it here.

As the title implies, there will be an eighth Mission: Impossible movie. What we do know is that it directly follows the events of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, released in 2015, and Mission: Impossible - Fallout, released in 2018, both of which were very well received. Fans of both are in for an especially great time, starting with Top Gun: Maverick before Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 cliff-jumps into theaters in Summer 2023.

Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One will release in theatres on July 14, 2023.

Interestingly, this is the only bit of dialogue in the two-minute trailer after which the cool stunts that are a Mission Impossible staple make up the rest of the clip. In the latest instalment of the franchise too, Hunt is ready to take on the villains, with a whole set of new awe-inspiring stunts, weapons, cars and locations such as Venice and the Vatican. The trailer begins with a scene of Eugene Kittridge, played by Henry Czerny, who you may remember from the first film of the series.