Top Gun 2 & Mission Impossible 8 Both Have The Same Tom Cruise Dilemma
A major Tom Cruise dilemma is facing Top Gun: Maverick and Mission: Impossible 8. Both upcoming movies have important questions to answer in regards to how it wraps up the stories for Tom Cruise’s characters. Each has the potential to end with the death of its main protagonist.
Currently, the 59-year-old actor has three Paramount movies in the pipeline. With the studio, Cruise is set to make highly anticipated sequels to both Mission: Impossible — Fallout and the 1986 classic, Top Gun. First up for the actor is Top Gun: Maverick, which will see the star reprise his role as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell over 30 years after his iconic role in the original movie. Cruise will follow up the 2022 summer blockbuster with the seventh installment in Paramount’s Mission: Impossible franchise. Set for a June 2023 release, Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One is poised to send Cruise’s Ethan Hunt on one more death-defying adventure. But as the title implies, it won’t be the last. Instead, his final outing as the IMF agent will come in 2024’s Mission Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part Two.
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Since it’s been confirmed that the eighth movie will be the end of the road for Ethan Hunt, Mission: Impossible 9 (if it gets greenlit at all) will have to work without Tom Cruise. In light of the situation, there are various theories about how the two Dead Reckoning movies will draw Hunt’s story to a close. And while Maverick’s arc has been significantly shorter, some of the same discussions are being held about Paramount’s plans for that character as well. Here’s why Top Gun 2 and Mission: Impossible 8 both have a dilemma to solve with Tom Cruise, how they may
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