Captain LagbeardTom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning sets Cannes ablaze May 14! AI villains, sunken subs, and all the stunts. Details inside!
Hold onto your popcorn, folks! Tom Cruise is officially bringing Ethan Hunt’s latest death-defying mission to the Cannes Film Festival this May.
Yep, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (aka MI8) will hit the French Riviera on May 14 for a glitzy Out of Competition premiere.
And guess what? Cruise, director Christopher McQuarrie, and the crew will all strut that iconic red carpet. Cue the Mission: Impossible theme song stuck in your head for days.
The hype train left the station yesterday when Paramount dropped the film’s trailer, and now Deadline confirms Cannes is all-in.
Plot twist: This time, Hunt isn’t just fighting human baddies—he’s up against a sentient AI called “The Entity” (because Skynet was taken).
To save the world, he’ll need to rally Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, and new faces like Angela Bassett to track down a sunken Russian sub holding the AI’s kill switch. Classic Cruise chaos.
Why this matters: Dude’s basically Cannes royalty now. Three years after Top Gun: Maverick blew minds there (and broke box offices), he’s back. Before that? His last Cannes walk was in 1992 for Far and Away. Talk about a glow-up.
Mark your calendars: MI8 hits U.S. theaters May 23. Meanwhile, Cannes runs May 13–24 with Juliette Binoche leading the competition jury. Will Ethan Hunt outrun AI and the French paparazzi? Place your bets.
