Actor Tramell Tillman (Severance, Hunters) has joined the cast of Paramount's Mission: Impossible 8. The film is currently slated to hit theaters on May 23, 2025.
After a poor box office performance, the 8th installment in the franchise will no longer be titled Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two as the studio likely wants to put some distance between the upcoming film and what they view as an outlier. Right now, the film is simply titled Mission: Impossible 8.
Tillman is the latest newcomer to join the cast, following the additions of Katy O’Brian, Nick Offerman, and Hannah Waddingham.
They all join returning cast members Tom Cruise, Henry Czerny, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Pom Klementieff, and Vanessa Kirby.
Plot details are currently being kept under wraps, which means there are no additional details on who Tillman is portraying in the film.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One had a reported production budget of $219M and only grossed $567.5M worldwide. The previous entry, Mission: Impossible – Fallout earned $791.1M from an estimated $180M production budget.
Fans of the long-running series are currently wondering if Cruise's Mission: Impossible films are experiencing franchise fatigue or if the seventh film was just an unfortunate victim of the Barbie and Oppenheimer box office madness that swept the nation last summer.
Both films were released just a few weeks after Dead Reckoning hit theaters and swiped most of the IMAX screens away from the Cruise action pic.
In more recent news, breakout star Rebecca Ferguson revealed why she declined to return to the franchise, stating, "Ilsa was becoming a team player. And we all can want different things, but for me, Ilsa was rogue. Ilsa was naughty. Ilsa was unpredictable. There was a lot of characters coming in, not leaving enough space for what she had been."
“Selfishly, that’s a lot of time to make a ‘Mission’ film. And unless you’re going to have a lot of screen time, that’s a lot of time sitting around waiting to film a huge movie that could take over a year to film. It’s dedication.”
Ferguson went on to add that with the expanding cast, there really wouldn't be much for her character to do and that she'd just be spending a lot of time in her trailer and that she prefers to spend her time on a production in front of the camera.
Isla Faust does actually meet her end in Dead Reckoning but fans of the series (which is somewhat known for its death fakeouts) are convinced the character managed to survive somehow.