Mission: Impossible 8 is heading to theaters in just a few months, 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 teaser trailer for the officially titled Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning released at the 2025 Super Bowl, we have a lot of details and footage giving us a clear glimpse of the upcoming action movie.
The stakes really have never been higher than in the eighth movie in the beloved action franchise, which follows on directly from the events of 2023's Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.
Here we've compiled everything you need to know about Mission: Impossible 8 release date, cast, plot theories, trailers, and more. Make sure to check our guide on how to watch the Mission: Impossible movies in order if you're planning to do a marathon ahead of the new release. With plenty of returning characters and a story that has been building up for years, you might need the refresher.
- Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning trailer sees Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt embark on his most dangerous mission yet
- Mission: Impossible 8 director says the latest movie features "the most difficult thing we've ever done" – and it's got the perfect first reaction from an early screening: "I almost had a heart attack"
We also have the lowdown on what cast have said about the upcoming movie so far too, so keep reading!
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 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.'"
Mission: Impossible 8 trailer
The latest Mission: Impossible 8 teaser trailer was released at the 2025 Super Bowl (you can watch it above), and gave us a new glimpse at Ethan Hunt's final mission. The clip is complete with explosions, underwater stunts, and a scene where Cruise does that famous drop-down move from the first movie. The stakes are high, and the stunts seem more dangerous than ever.
The new trailer doesn't show anything radically new from the previous trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, released in November 2024. It didn't reveal too much either.
Full of new and old clips, it sees Ethan on the hunt for the submarine in a mission that seemingly takes him on a global journey full of more death-defying stunts. Among the big set pieces, Ethan can be seen hanging from a biplane as well as diving underwater in stunning aquatic sequences.
"Everything you are, everything you've done, has come to this," the voiceover says. And of course, it features plenty of Tom Cruise running — you can watch it below.
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.
