Impossible 8 Trailer References Hunt’s Previous Missions

As we hurtle towards the arrival of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, the large question remains: will this be Ethan Hunt’s last mission? Is Tom Cruise really ready to hang up the rubber mask? We’ll be waiting until opening night for answers to that one, but fresh evidence has arrived in the form of a modern Final Reckoning trailer – one that flashes back to (nearly) every mission Hunt has ever undertaken. Buckle up.

There’s plenty to dig into there – fresh looks at that astonishing biplane stunt, more teases of the death-defying underwater sequence we’ve heard so much about, and a breakneck shot of Hunt jumping into the sea. And is that our hero teaming up – via some kind of techno-mask – with the Entity itself in order to save the day?

But there’s also all the nods to the rest of the series; the Langley dangle from the first Mission: Impossible; the Kremlin explosion and Burj Khalifa fall from Ghost Protocol; the IMF-gassing and mountaintop motorbike leap from Dead Reckoning; the Rabbit’s Foot and Shanghai jump from Mission: Impossible – III; the helicopter stunt from Fallout. As far as we can see (and maybe you’ll spot something if you pause that rapid-fire montage), it’s just M and Rogue Nation that don’t appear here.

Elsewhere, we get teases of where the fight against the Entity will go next, a brief glimpse of Hannah Waddingham making her Mission debut – and, Mr Milchick himself, Severance’s Tramell Tillman. Imagine if your ‘innie’ worked for IMF. Now that would be carnage. All in all, it’s looking like another must-see Mission. Fine, fine, we accept – see you at the movies on 23 May.