The new film picks up where Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One ended, with Ethan, Grace ( Hayley Atwell ), and the rest of the team pursuing Gabriel (Esai Morales), an assassin working for the Entity artificial intelligence.

Emilio Estevez got kebab'd and Henry Cavill took a propeller to his almost $3 million mustache, but one character that nearly had what might've been one of the worst deaths in the franchise was Josh Holloway's as one of the briefly seen IMF agents,

Shooting on an Arctic set and in South Africa proved challenging for different reasons on the wildlife spectrum.

Known for its vicious villains, the franchise sports its Biggest Bad yet: an AI known as The Entity that's bent on wiping humans off the planet. Mashable Senior Creative Producer Mark Stetson sat down with the cast (Simon Pegg,

Mission: Impossible has given us plenty of baddies throughout the franchise, and we've ranked all the major villains across every movie.

Actor and comedian Simon Pegg credits his work on the “Mission: Impossible” film franchise with saving his life by helping him get sober. When Pegg landed the role as agent Benji Dunn in “Mission: Impossible III,” he recalled feeling “deeply unhappy” and unable to enjoy the experience, he told Variety.

Impossible, funny is not the first word that comes to mind. The Mission: Impossible movies are action-packed, thrilling and epic, those are the first descriptors that I think of. However, in preparation for The Final Reckoning’s release on the 2025 movie schedule,

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is a spectacularly silly tribute to the franchise’s explosive past.