Tom Cruise hangs off a plane in thrilling ‘Mission: Impossible 8’ trailer

Tom Cruise can be seen dangling from a plane in the thrilling trailer for ‘Mission: Impossible 8’.

Tom Cruise is up to his old tricks in his eighth, and seemingly final, Mission: Impossible movie.

The teaser trailer for Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning was released Monday with a glimpse at what has been reported as Cruise’s final appearance as Ethan Hunt.

The 62-year-old Oscar nominee hangs off the side of a yellow aeroplane in one of his many unbelievable feats in the trailer.

He’s also shown shirtless in a hand-to-hand combat fight, running at full speed in a city and scuba diving underwater to explore a submarine.

The trailer for Mission Impossible 8 has dropped, with Tom Cruise returning as Ethan Hunt.

The trailer also confirms the return of Angela Bassett as Erika Sloane. She originated the role in 2018’s Mission: Impossible — Fallout.

Cruise posted the trailer to his Instagram, writing, “Our lives are the sum of our choices.” He also shared the film’s official poster, with the caption, “Every choice has led to this.”

As is expected, Cruise performs a whole set of stunts in the action epic.

The eighth instalment of the Mission: Impossible franchise comes out next year.

It is a follow-up to 2023’s Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, which saw Ethan and his IMF team face off against a rogue AI called The Entity.

Joining Cruise and Bassett, 66, in the upcoming film includes Hayley Atwell as Grace, Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell, Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn, Vanessa Kirby as Alanna Mitsopolis, Esai Morales as Gabriel, Pom Klementieff as Paris, and Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge.

New cast members include Hannah Waddingham, Nick Offerman, Katy O’Brian, Holt McCallany, and Tramell Tillman.

Christopher McQuarrie is back to direct his fourth film in the spy franchise.

What a film shot.

Mission: Impossible 8 was initially supposed to be called “Dead Reckoning Part Two”, however the first Dead Reckoning underperformed at the box office, making $US570 million on a $US291 million budget after going up against the Barbenheimer phenomenon in July 2023.

The film was nominated for two Academy Awards.

Cruise has starred in seven Mission: Impossible movies since 1996, with the eighth set to be released next May. Picture: Toni Anne Barson/FilmMagic

Despite the rumours that the seventh and eighth Mission: Impossible movies are serving as a send-off to Cruise’s character, McQuarrie, 56, previously told the Light the Fuse podcast that fans can’t believe everything they hear.

“Let me tell you, I’ve been working with Tom Cruise for 15 years and I cannot tell you the number of times I’ve been standing next to the man, witnessed an event and then read about it in the trades the next day and none of what they describe is actually true,” the director said.

Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning arrives in cinemas on May 23, 2025.

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