Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two is an upcoming American spy action film directed by Christopher McQuarrie from a screenplay he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen. It is the sequel to Dead Reckoning: Part One (2023), and the eighth installment in the Mission: Impossible film series.
Tom Cruise returns in his eighth appearance as the series’ lead character, Ethan Hunt, whom he will have portrayed over a period of 28 years at the time of the film’s release. Ving Rhames, Henry Czerny, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Hayley Atwell, Shea Whigham, and Pom Klementieff all reprise their roles from previous films in the series. In January 2019, Cruise announced that the seventh and eighth Mission: Impossible films would be shot back-to-back with McQuarrie writing and directing both films. Plans for the film later changed in February 2021.
Returning and new cast members were announced soon after, and Lorne Balfe, who composed the score for two films, returned to score the film. Filming began in March 2022 in the United Kingdom with other filming locations, including Malta, South Africa and Norway. It was halted in July 2023 due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two is scheduled to be released in the United States on June 28, 2024, by Paramount Pictures.
As the latest high-stakes adventure of IMF agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) continues to set box office records, fans of the Mission: Impossible franchise eagerly await the second half of this epic story with Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two. It’s honestly amazing that the Mission: Impossible series has been able to up the ante with every installment since the original 1996 film. Each installment somehow ends up being more exciting than the last and adds its own flavor of action spectacle to keep the franchise fresh and exciting. With a solid foundation formed by Mission: Impossible 1996, we got high-speed motorcycle chases in Mission: Impossible II, a terrifying villain in Mission: Impossible III, a Burj Khalifa-scaling triumph in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, a stealthy espionage treat in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, and a gripping nuclear prevention tale in Mission: Impossible – Fallout.
