Watch: Filming in Svalbard, Norway ‘M:I – The Final Reckoning’ Promo

Watch: Filming in Svalbard, Norway ‘M:I – The Final Reckoning’ Promo

by Alex Billington
April 22, 2025
Source: YouTube

“You can’t fake being in -40°. You take your gloves off for a few seconds, your fingers start to freeze…” ❄ Paramount has revealed a quick featurette video from Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning focusing on their film shoot up in Norway. The video is titled “Shooting in Svalbard” and features Tom Cruise & Chris McQuarrie briefly talking about what it was like to shoot in the snow & ice. This is the 8th entry in the long running Mission Impossible franchise – and the conclusion to Dead Reckoning Part One from 2023. Plot details are still a secret – obviously Hunt needs to stop some threatening weapon from destroying the world. The huge cast of Final Reckoning features Tom Cruise with Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, & many more. Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole (see Google Maps) one of the most northern places on Earth inhabited by humans. James Gunn’s Superman also filmed scenes in Svalbard. As frosty as it is that they shot there, no idea what Ethan’s team is doing there or why. Still a substantial mystery until all is revealed this summer.

Here’s the Svalbard promo featurette for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, from YouTube:

You can rewatch the official trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning right here or teaser here.

A continuation of the iconic Mission: Impossible series following Ethan Hunt formerly of the IMF, and the conclusion following Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023). Paramount Pictures and Skydance Present, A Tom Cruise Production. “Our lives are the sum of our choices.” Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025). Mission: Impossible 8 is once again directed by prominent American screenwriter and filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie, director of the films The Way of the Gun, Jack Reacher, as well as the three other Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Fallout, and Dead Reckoning Part One previously; he also wrote the scripts for Valkyrie, The Tourist, Jack Reacher, Edge of Tomorrow, The Mummy, and Top Gun: Maverick. The screenplay is written by Christopher McQuarrie & Erik Jendresen. Based on the original TV Series created by Bruce Geller. It’s produced by Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie. Paramount will release the grand finale Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning in theaters worldwide starting May 23rd, 2025 coming soon this summer. How does that look – who’s in?

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