Paramount saved its biggest film and its biggest star for last in his Cinemacon presentation with a new trailer for “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” presented by Ethan Hunt himself, Tom Cruise.
Studio manager Brian Robbins brought the cruise to the stage in Caesars Palace and marked the first time in year that the star had appeared before the exhibitors personally. In recent years, Cruise had been out and filmed films like “Top Gun: Maverick” during the show and sent video messages to exhibitors of him who got ready for his stunts.
In the new trailer, we see Ethan climbing on the side of a biplane before we see government officials look back through the IMF agents earlier work during the last seven “M: I” films. The world’s powers panic over the unit’s growing power and its threat to destroy the whole world, and they start to wonder if they have to take Ethan to stop the unit as well.
Before the presentation, Cruise took a moment to honor his “Top Gun” star, the late Val Kilmer.
“I can’t say how much I admired his work, how much I thought of him as a human being and how much it meant to me when he did” top gun “and came back for” Top Gun: Maverick, “he said solemnly before asked for a moment of silence.
Cruise then turned to her attention to her director Christopher McQuarrie, who received Cinemacons Director of the Year Award. In his speech, he reflected on his years of work with the Oscar-winning author’s director behind films such as “The usual suspects”, “Valkyrie” and the last three “Mission: Impossible” films.
Cruise told many stories about his years working with films with Mcquarrie, including how he was necessary to resume the production of “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning” after the Covid suspension. Cruise called him a “Modern Irving Thalberg” and credited him to deal with several massive blockbuster facing outstanding obstacles to the global film industry
“Because of Christopher, we were able to keep the show on the road. We could continue and complete” Top Gun: Maverick “and two” Mission: Impossible “movies for a global pandemic and two industry strikes,” Cruise said.
“Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” meets theaters on May 23.
