Tom Cruise and Paramount‘s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning has been set for a Cannes Film Festival launch.
As we reported yesterday, the film’s presence was all but a lock and it has now been confirmed by the festival. The movie will play Out of Competition on May 14 with Cruise, director Christopher McQuarrie and cast treading the carpet. The trailer for the movie launched yesterday.
Final Reckoning will see Cruise reunite with McQuarrie from a screenplay he wrote with Erik Jendresen. It’s the eighth instalment in the Mission series. Cruise stars with Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Mariela Garriga and Angela Bassett.
In the movie, Hunt must face his most dangerous enemy yet in the form of an AI known as the Entity. The pic rounds out the plot set up in the previous film, with Hunt now in possession of the key necessary to defeat the Entity. Before he can do that, he must collect his team to find the sunken Russian submarine that houses the source code needed to destroy the technology.
Paramount Pictures will launch the film stateside from May 23. Cruise has a strong recent history with Cannes given that Top Gun: Maverick launched at the festival three years ago. Prior to that his last visit was in 1992 for the premiere of Ron Howard’s Far And Away.
Cruise will be in London in the days before the Cannes Film Festival to collect a BFI Fellowship and take part in a Q&A event. The film icon was at CinemaCon last week to show footage of Final Reckoning and held a moment of remembrance for his late Top Gun co-star Val Kilmer.
Juliette Binoche will preside over the Cannes Competition. The festival runs May 13 – May 24.
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