Happy Birthday Tom Cruise!
With the first screenings of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One happening in exactly a week, Paramount is celebrating its most iconic star's 61st birthday by releasing an epic supercut of all of his most badass runs from the Mission: Impossible movies.
We first met IMF ace Ethan Hunt (Cruise) in Brian De Palma's Mission: Impossible in 1996, and have joined him on each of his adventures through John Woo's highly-stylized Mission: Impossible II, J. J. Abrams' deeply personal Mission: Impossible III, Brad Bird's high-flying Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, and then, of course, Christopher McQuarrie's back-to-back masterpieces Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation in 2015 and Mission: Impossible - Fallout in 2018.
Now, it's time for the first half of the biggest and darkest Mission yet, Dead Reckoning Part One, which will pit Hunt and his team against the most devastating villain they've ever faced. The stakes have never been higher and it's up to Ethan Hunt and allies, new and old, to find a way to save the day or face potential extinction for the entire human race.
In addition to Tom Cruise (Ethan Hunt), the cast features Hayley Atwell (Grace), Ving Rhames (Luther Stickell), Simon Pegg (Benji Dunn), Rebecca Ferguson (Ilsa Faust), Vanessa Kirby (Alanna Mitsopolis/White Widow), Esai Morales (Gabriel), Pom Klementieff (Paris), Mariela Garriga (Marie), Henry Czerny (Eugene Kittridge), Shea Whigham (Jasper Briggs), Greg Tarzan Davis (Degas), Charles Parnell, Frederick Schmidt (Zola Mitsopolis), Cary Elwes (Denlinger), Mark Gatiss, Indira Varma, and Rob Delaney.
Check out the new "Tom Cruise Running In Mission: Impossible Since 1996" supercut below:
In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission – not even the lives of those he cares about most.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One lights the fuse in theaters on July 12, 2023; with the follow-up, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part Two, set to arrive the following year on June 28, 2024.