The newest installment in the Mission Impossible franchise will be hitting theaters this summer, and we now have our first look at footage from the movie.
Before we get to the footage, the movie now also has an official title. Known previously simply as Mission Impossible 5, the new movie is now titled Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation.
The first trailer for the movie can be seen via the official Mission Impossible YouTube channel.
We now finally have an idea of the plot of the movie, which will revolve around Hunt and the gang trying to take down a rogue syndicate which Benji describes as "an anti-IMF." We also get our look at new cast member Rebecca Ferguson, who looks like she could be a pretty badass new action hero, rescuing Ethan in the opening moments.
The trailer is pretty heavy on the action goodness we come to these movies for, with some hand to hand combat, a motorcycle chase, Ethan jumping off a building, and in a sequence which looks like it could top the Burj Khalifa scene in Ghost Protocol, Ethan riding on the side of a freaking plane as it takes off. Wow.
It all looks pretty amazing, and Mission Impossible is turning out to be one of those rare series that actually keeps getting better. J.J. Abrams' Mission Impossible 3 was pretty brilliant, and Ghost Protocol was arguably the best in the entire series. Rogue Nation certainly has large shoes to fill.
Rogue Nation will be directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who previously worked with Tom Cruise on Jack Reacher. He also wrote Edge of Tomorrow and Valkyrie, two other Tom Cruise movies.
If you feel like you just read a story about a movie being announced as having a "rogue" title, that's because recently Disney announced the title of their first Star Wars spinoff as Rogue One. Apparently this was somewhat of an issue, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Paramount registered the title Rogue Nation back in January but Disney didn't clear the title Rogue One, so theoretically Paramount could have fought Disney and blocked them from using their title. The two ended up working out a deal, and so now Disney is not allowed to use the title Rogue One in promo materials until after Mission Impossible comes out, the one exception being at their Star Wars event in April. That's a whole lot of problems and negotiations over the word "rogue."
Rogue Nation was originally intended to be released on Dec. 18, but it was recently moved forward to July 31 because let's face it, you'd have to be insane to open a movie anywhere close to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Like Ghost Protocol, Rogue Nation will also be shot on IMAX.
In addition to Tom Cruise, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation will also star returning cast members Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames. Alec Baldwin and Rebecca Ferguson will also be joining the series.
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation opens on July 31.
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