Tom Cruise Honors Val Kilmer Before Revealing New Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning Trailer

Tom Cruise was astatine Paramount Pictures’ CinemaCon presumption Thursday to beforehand his upcoming movie Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, but earlier helium did helium paid tribute to his Top Gun co-star Val Kilmer, who died Tuesday, by asking the assemblage of theatre executives and property for a infinitesimal of soundlessness to grant him.

“I’d similar to grant a beloved person of mine, Val Kilmer. I truly can’t archer you however overmuch I respect his work, however overmuch I thought of him arsenic a quality being, however honored I was erstwhile helium joined Top Gun and came backmost for Top Gun: Maverick,” Cruise said.

“I deliberation it would beryllium large if we could each conscionable instrumentality a infinitesimal and deliberation astir each the fantastic times we had with him. Would you each caput doing that? Let’s conscionable instrumentality a moment.”

Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise successful Top Gun.

When the infinitesimal of soundlessness concluded, Cruise said, “We privation you good connected your adjacent journey.”

Cruise spoke astatine magnitude astir the Mission: Impossible franchise overall, hailing the cardinal workplace executives and originative collaborators of each the past films successful the decades-old movie series.

Cruise past gave a lengthy code praising the franchise’s four-time director, Christopher McQuarrie, recalling the herculean efforts the second went done helming Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cruise past presented McQuarrie with CinemaCon’s “Director of the Year” award.

The duo concluded the Paramount presumption by introducing the caller trailer for The Final Reckoning. The action-packed thrust incorporated footage from past films, peculiarly the CIA break-in series from the Brian De Palma-directed 1996 original.

The trailer features returning formed members Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Kirby, Angela Bassett, Pom Klementieff, Esai Morales, Henry Czerny, Shea Whigham, and Rolf Saxon arsenic good arsenic caller additions similar Nick Offerman (playing an quality authoritative who can’t rather judge each the brainsick things his colleagues accidental Ethan Hunt has done implicit the years).

Ethan is simply a manacled captive for a bully information of the trailer, but is past seen successful enactment connected everything from a biplane to an craft bearer arsenic helium and his IMF mates indispensable erstwhile again effort to prevention the satellite from a deadly weapon.

There’s a grim, No Time to Die-like vibe to the trailer that decidedly paints a bleak representation of Ethan Hunt’s chances of endurance successful a movie dubbed The Final Reckoning.

Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning cruises into theaters connected May 23, 2025.