After seven Mission: Impossible films, the question is entirely justified: How do Tom Cruise and his team plan to top the action madness? In the past, the Hollywood star has attached himself to airplanes, climbed around the Burj Khalifa and jumped over a cliff on a motorcycle – including landing with a parachute.
Each new mission is a feast for adrenaline junkies on the big screen. That shouldn’t change with the eighth and possibly final part: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. In a new interview, director Christopher McQuarrie gives an update on the sequel and it sounds… scary.
Mission: Impossible 8 tests even the toughest fans: “Almost had a heart attack”
Speaking to Empire (via Deadline ), McQuarrie teases what fans can expect in The Finale Reckoning. The most important thing: The new Mission: Impossible adventure will contain an action sequence that will amaze even the most hardened fans of the series. Or as McQuarrie puts it more drastically:
We had a little screening and someone said, ‘I almost choked during the entire sequence. I almost had a heart attack.’ Then I just thought, ‘I guess we did something right.’
You can watch the trailer for Mission: Impossible 8 here:
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning – Teaser Trailer (German) HD
There is certainly a fair amount of exaggeration in this anecdote. If someone actually had health problems at a Mission: Impossible screening, McQuarrie wouldn’t tell the story so cheerfully. Nevertheless, the new film doesn’t seem to be short on excitement and thrills.
McQuarrie didn’t want to reveal exactly which sequence we’re talking about. However, the trailer provides some images that qualify for this. Like Tom Cruise hanging from a propeller plane. Or Tom Cruise struggling with his air supplies underwater. Or Tom Cruise simply running around.
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When does Mission: Impossible 8 start in cinemas?
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning conquers from the May 21, 2025 the German cinemas. The film follows directly on from the events of its predecessor, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning. Last but not least, the two films were originally planned as two-parters before the layout of the mega-blockbuster was subsequently changed.