It was expected, and now its confirmed – Christopher McQuarrie’s “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” has become the longest film in the franchise yet.
IGN reports that this first part of the two-part story clocks in at a runtime of 156 minutes without credits – taking it past previous record holder 2018’s “Mission: Impossible Fallout” at 147 minutes. The prior films have all hovered around the two-hour mark.
McQuarrie confirmed earlier this week in an Instagram post that he had locked picture. This comes after Paramount Global president Bob Bakish said in March the film was still “too long” at that point.
In the new film, Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands.
Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Esai Morales, Vanessa Kirby, Pom Klementieff and Henry Czerny co-star.
“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” will open in cinemas on July 12th. The follow-up, ‘Dead Reckoning Part Two,’ will get a release on June 28th.
