Paramount Pictures is wrapping its marketing blitz for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning with a colossal media drop—one befitting the franchise’s last hurrah. With just ten days left before Ethan Hunt sprints, dives, and barrels onto movie screens worldwide, the studio has released more than fifty high-resolution stills and a brand-new poster that might be the most striking key art the series has ever produced. The imagery showcases every major player—both new and returning—and it underscores just how personal this final assignment will be for Tom Cruise’s indefatigable superspy.
The still gallery runs the gamut from intimate character portraits to jaw-dropping action moments. One photo captures Ethan, tuxedo collar loosened, staring across a Venetian ballroom as sparks rain from a shattered chandelier. Another finds Hayley Atwell’s Grace piloting a snow-speckled skidoo over an Alpine ridge, her eyes fixed on a distant helicopter. Villainous Gabriel (Esai Morales) appears in an ominous silhouette, standing atop the conning tower of the sunken submarine Sevastopol. In a lighter moment, Simon Pegg’s Benji sits inside a makeshift mobile ops van, his face illuminated by a bank of LED monitors that read, “Nervous? Me too.” The breadth of locations in these stills—Venice’s crumbling catacombs, Norway’s frozen fjords, Abu Dhabi’s dune-blasted highways—underscores what producer/star Cruise calls their “ultimate globe-trotting farewell.”
The new poster adopts an IMAX-friendly vertical layout, placing Cruise front and center in a half-profile, wind ripping through his hair as a vintage biplane screams overhead. Below him: a montage of set pieces, including a hurtling train crossing a fractured viaduct and Rebecca Ferguson’s Ilsa mid-duel with a masked adversary. The tagline—“The world pulls Ethan Hunt apart. He pulls it back together.”—suggests the emotional stakes will be just as high as the physical ones.
Paramount didn’t stop there. Two fresh behind-the-scenes featurettes arrived alongside the photos, each spotlighting Cruise’s terrifying aerial acrobatics. In “Edge of the Sky,” director Christopher McQuarrie and stunt coordinator Wade Eastwood detail how they strapped an IMAX-certified camera to the fuselage of a twin-engine biplane so audiences could see Cruise hanging upside down at 8,000 feet—no green screen, no stunt double. The second reel, “Dive of Faith,” follows Cruise’s year-long training regimen for the film’s climactic HALO-style freefall, which was executed over three dawns in the Italian Alps. Filmmakers reveal that Cruise asked to redo one jump after he noticed a slight fog halo on the lens, resulting in a six-hour reset while the crew waited for optimal sunlight.
If that isn’t enough to satisfy adrenaline junkies, Paramount has also released a 1.90:1 “IMAX remix” trailer, showcasing extended aspect-ratio sequences exclusive to giant screens. The trailer lets viewers glimpse the expanded vertical composition during the biplane roll, the collapsing Arctic ice shelf, and the much-teased underwater labyrinth inside the Sevastopol. IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond confirmed that more than 30 minutes of the film were captured with large-format sensors, promising an image 26% taller than standard digital prints—perfect for Cruise’s penchant for real, dizzying altitude.
All of this material drives home Paramount’s central message: see The Final Reckoning on the biggest canvas possible. The studio has coordinated with IMAX, Dolby Cinema, 4DX, and ScreenX chains to launch ticket-holder giveaways, limited-edition posters, and even VR lobby experiences that place viewers on the wing of Cruise’s biplane. For fans counting down to May 24, these stills, featurettes, and the new poster act as a last-minute adrenaline shot—proof that Ethan Hunt’s swan song is poised to redefine blockbuster spectacle one final time.
If you haven't already, remember to book your tickets now for the commercial-free IMAX Opening Day Fan Event on Thursday, May 22!
Check out the new IMAX trailer, the "Jump Flip" and "Snorri Rig" featurettes, the first clip, 55 hi-res stills, and an awesome new poster below:
In our review of the previous installment, Dead Reckoning, we said, "Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One is the undisputed blockbuster movie event of the summer! Tom Cruise delivers yet another action movie masterpiece, packed with jaw-dropping spectacle, pulse-pounding action, heartfelt emotion, awe-inspiring performances, and an exhilarating chemistry opposite new leading lady Hayley Atwell that’ll have you begging for more. This is one Mission we’ll always choose to accept! Bring on Part Two!"
In addition to Cruise, the supporting cast features Hayley Atwell (Captain America: The First Avenger; Agent Carter; Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning), Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible; Pulp Fiction; Dawn of the Dead), Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead; Star Trek; Mission: Impossible), Esai Morales (Ozark; La Bamba; Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning), Pom Klementieff (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2; Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning; Westworld), Henry Czerny (Mission: Impossible; Ready or Not; Revenge), Holt McCallany (Mindhunter; Fight Club; Wrath of Man), Janet McTeer (Ozark; Albert Nobbs; Jessica Jones), Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation; The Last of Us; Devs), Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso; Game of Thrones; Hocus Pocus 2), Tramell Tillman (Severance; Hunters; Difficult People), Angela Bassett (Black Panther; What's Love Got to Do with It; 9-1-1), Shea Whigham (Boardwalk Empire; Joker; Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning), Greg Tarzan Davis (Top Gun: Maverick; Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning; Grey’s Anatomy), Charles Parnell (Top Gun: Maverick; Transformers: Age of Extinction; The Last Ship), Mark Gatiss (Sherlock; Doctor Who; The Favourite), with Rolf Saxon (Mission: Impossible; Saving Private Ryan; Entrapment), and Lucy Tulugarjuk (The Grizzlies; Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner; Tia and Piujuq).
McQuarrie helmed the feature, with a screenplay he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One; Ithaca; Band of Brothers).
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning hits theaters and IMAX on May 23!
Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.