The Mission: Impossible film series is famous for its wild stunts precisely executed by many but especially Tom Cruise, but its seventh installment Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One has teased stunts that already surpass those of Mission: Impossible 1 to 6. Set to be released in July 2023, Mission: Impossible 7 will be the first of the two-part chapter planned as a sendoff for Cruise’s portrayal of IMF agent Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible franchise. Mission: Impossible 7 will see many actors return, including Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell, Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust, and Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn, who have been part of Hunt’s IMF team for the best part of the franchise. The film will also see Vanessa Kirby return as the White Widow and Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge, IMF’s director in the 1996 film that started it all, Mission: Impossible.
Starting as a spy series, Mission: Impossible slowly switched to highlight its crazy stunts, becoming famous for how they became wilder as the franchise continued. From climbing the tallest building in the world in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol to hanging from the side of a flying plane during takeoff in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Cruise’s stunts upped the game as the movies went on. For the most recent installment, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, stunts included helicopter chases for which Cruise had to precisely fly the helicopter without breaking character and even a dangerous barrel roll. Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 have been reported to include even more dangerous stunts, as the Mission: Impossible 7 trailer also showed.
While Mission: Impossible 7’s trailer showed many wild stunts, it didn’t include a particular one that Christopher McQuarrie chose to share on Twitter in honor of Cruise’s 60th birthday. In it, Cruise can be seen hanging from the top of a biplane as it’s flying upside down, showing how Mission: Impossible 7 is following the trend set up by previous Mission: Impossible movies of always following up crazy stunts with even crazier ones. As Mission: Impossible 8 is set to be filmed in space, it’s safe to say that not only are viewers in for a thrilling treat with Mission: Impossible 7 but that those wild stunts will also be followed up by hair-raising ones in the final installment of the franchise focusing on Hunt.
The Mission: Impossible 7 death-defying stunts already outdo previous Mission: Impossible ones, even as they were only teased by the trailer. Interviews ahead of the Mission: Impossible 7 release next year have detailed the challenges of Cruise having to drive off a cliff on a motorbike before pulling the parachute, and McQuarrie’s still only showed yet another unbelievably difficult stunt pulled off by the actor. While Cruise never shied away from performing difficult feats - even having to be trained by experts on how to slow down his heart rate so that he would have needed less oxygen for an underwater stunt in Mission: Impossible 5 - Mission: Impossible 7 already seems to have surpassed the franchise’s previous movies, as it mirrors many of the 1996 Mission: Impossible stunts while making them wilder.
The trailer and the many interviews already revealed a gripping story with even more sensational stunts for Mission: Impossible’s next installment. While only a few stunts have been teased, the entirety of them as they’ll be in the movie will surely be thrilling. As the currently revealed Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One stunts are set to surpass the franchise’s previous ones, the action-adventure spy movie is sure to thrill audiences upon its release in 2023.