Mission Impossible, what will be the future of Tom Cruise after the next films?

After hitting the box office with Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise is ready to return to the cinema with another saga that has marked his career: Mission Impossible. The next appointment with the action franchise is scheduled for July 2023, when the seventh chapter arrives in theaters Dead Reckoning: Part One. Initially scheduled for release in summer 2021, the film was postponed for two years due to Covid, but will be followed the following year by Dead Reckoning: Part Twoexpected to debut in June 2024. Nothing is known about the plot of these new adventures, apart from the fact that some scenes were shot between Rome and Venice, but there are those who speculate that they could represent theepilogue regarding Cruise as secret agent Ethan Hunt.

After all the title, Dead Reckoningwhich we could translate as “showdown,” might suggest one rather definitive narrative turn. And it’s not the first time we’ve recently seen a multi-year action saga come to an end (albeit a temporary one): just think of James Bond’s fate in No Time To Die. However, there are those who are ready to bet that the final word has not been written in all respects. Among these there is certainly Christopher McQuarrieCruise’s longtime collaborator: After rewriting parts of the script for Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol in 2011, he became the director of the next two chapters, Rogue Nation And Falloutbefore embarking on the direction of the two as well Dead Reckoning.

According to McQuarrie, in fact, the news about a departure of Tom Cruise are unfounded: “I have been working with him for 15 years and I can’t tell you the number of times I was next to him, I saw something happen with my eyes and then the next day I read exactly the opposite in the newspapers.”, He told a podcast American in reference to rumors about a possible departure of the protagonist. “In today’s world, just wait 17 minutes and another piece of news takes the place of the previous one”Says the director. Not a completely crystal clear way to deny the news, however, and this suggests that there will be gods details in the next films which will be fundamental to understand the future of Ethan Hunt and his interpreter, but which for now cannot be revealed. On the other hand Cruise is the face of this saga since it came out the first film in 1996: is it time to turn the page?