With Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One having been out in theaters for nearly a month, it looks like it's finally safe to talk about the film's dangerous AI villain, The Entity, as Paramount Pictures has released an awesome new featurette spotlighting what went behind bringing the deadly AI to life, while also possibly teasing what's to come in Part Two.
Following a roaring start, Dead Reckoning Part One has cooled off quite a bit at the box office due to the buzzsaw that was "Barbenheimer" as it was forced to give up premium screens - including IMAX - to Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, but it's still performing quite admirably and should be crossing the $500 million milestone before the end of the week.
While it's no guarantee, we'd imagine - or, at least, we hope - Dead Reckoning Part One will be re-released in premium formats at some point before the end of the summer, if not by the end of the year, as it's undoubtedly one of the most entertaining films of the year and deserves to be seen on the biggest and most beautiful screens imaginable.
In our review, 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."
Check out the "Taking On AI" featurette below:
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.
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, with the follow-up, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part Two, set to arrive next year on June 28, 2024.