10 Things You Need To Know About Mission Impossible 7

10. It Won't Be The Last One

Let's get this out of the way; Mission: Impossible 7 will not be the final entry in the franchise. In fact, taking a leaf out of the playbooks of many box-office behemoths, it will shoot back-to-back with a sequel, leaving the genuine chance of Ethan Hunt actually facing a genuine cliffhanger for the first time in his career.

Speaking earlier this week on the Light the Fuse podcast, Christopher McQuarrie opened up on the decision, revealing that his and Cruise's initial plans for the seventh entry found them looking at a hefty two-hour-and-forty-minute runtime alone, with the pair loathed to cut any sequences - at which point, they chopped two major components and realised that making a duology of their story was the smarter move.

It's likely that both films will pick up subtitles closer to release (insert your Mission: Impossible - Infinity War and Mission: Impossible - Endgame jokes here, if you must) but there's no denying it; the IMF will ride again after their next installment, at least for one more time. (Whether Cruise, who will be sixty by the release of M:I 8, can keep this up beyond that is anyone's guess, but it wouldn't be infeasible to assume he could morph into a pint-sized Sly Stallone either.)