Do the Mission: Impossible cast really think Final Reckoning is the last movie?

Yahoo

21-05-2025

The newest Mission: Impossible film, subtitled The Final Reckoning, is largely being seen as the last movie of the franchise, but the door has been left open for more.
With the possibility there, the cast tell Yahoo UK they are ready and willing to get back in the saddle should Tom Cruise ask. Angela Bassett, who returns as Erika Sloane after first joining the franchise in Fallout, said she'd "take him up" on the offer and would "join in again" if the opportunity presented itself, the same went for both Simon Pegg and Pom Klementieff.
"I love the character and I love the franchise," Klementieff explains. "I love everyone that I worked with so yea, absolutely." Pegg mirrored her sentiment as he added: "Any chance to to get back into those characters I'd take it."
Bassett joked that even though The Final Reckoning seems like it'd be the last film, she's not convinced it actually will be: "I felt that too, is it really the final? Final but not the end."
Greg Tarzan Davis, who plays agent Degas, took a different approach when asked about the franchise returning in the future because he felt The Final Reckoning was the perfect way to end things: "I think we put a nice bow at the end of this film. I think it wrapped up all of the films that came before it and it's an honour to be a part of it.
"If Tom, in a theoretical world, if he says, 'hey guys I have this great story, this great idea I'd love for you all to come back', I can speak for all of us when I say I think we'd say yeah because, one, we all enjoy making films with Tom — we love making films, especially practical films — and we all love each other.
"So to get a chance to work together again, I mean, that would be amazing. It's kind of sad to think that we're going to all be part ways and be doing our own thing."
The Final Reckoning still gives the actors a lot to work with when it comes to their characters, especially Pegg's Benji who finds himself made the team's leader by Cruise's Hunt. For the Shaun of the Dead star it felt like a full circle moment for his character.
"It was great because it felt like it was the right moment," he explains. "We'd spent 6 movies growing Benji and evolving him, becoming more capable and more experienced, and braver. And it just felt like this was the moment to do that, it was lovely and what an amazing team I had to lead."
The actor will be taking "20 years of memories" with him in the meantime, which is a sentiment shared by all of his co-stars who feel they've learned a lot during their time with Cruise.
"We've all asked for advice about professionalism and the business but the technical side of filmmaking too," Atwell reflects. "I think over time you get a sense of really what it takes to implement that advice, and his day-to-day dedication and commitment to always studying and pushing further, and asking more from himself, I think that it becomes contagious and very inspiring to be around."
Davis agreed, adding: "Filmmaking is one of the key things and understanding that the audience comes first over any selfish thing that we have, like 'oh, I'm this actor and I just want to look good'. No, you want to serve the story which serves the audience, they're coming watch this performance, this story that we put on, so we want to make sure that we're giving them the appropriate respect to entertain them."
The actor was first taken under Cruise's wing when he appeared in Top Gun: Maverick as one of the young recruits that Pete "Maverick" Mitchell has to train over the course of the film, and Davis adds that he is incredible grateful to Cruise for supporting him so fully in his burgeoning career.
"Just starting out my career and having somebody like Tom to be a mentor to me has been a blessing," he says. "I couldn't have asked for one of the greatest starts for my career, hopefully I can sustain this — that's what I'm trying to do.
"But it's been cool because I've had the example of cutting out what could have been bad examples from other people that may not [have] the same mindset Tom has, and just taking what he has taught me to heart and ingraining that in me... I'm looking forward to applying this this knowledge that he's giving me to my career in the future."
The possibility of more films in the franchise will likely depend on how well the film does at the box office, and the film has strong competition in the form of Disney's live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch. But Bassett says that Cruise doesn't see it that way.
"I love it, and you know what? Tom loves it too," she says of both films being released on the same day. "Because he loves movies so he says that's the only place he does not believe that there is competition.
"Not in the cinema, there is no such thing. It's a beautiful way to express it and to look at it, you know? And it's true. In my house there is never like, 'OK, who's going out to which film?' We don't have that."
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning premieres in UK cinemas on Wednesday, 21 May.