Paramount Pictures is dealing with its own mission right now — cracking down on the Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One trailer that reportedly leaked on social media this weekend. The Tom Cruise film isn’t set to release until next year. Several Twitter accounts shared the apparently-leaked trailer but by the end of Saturday, most videos were taken down after copyright infringement reports were filed by Paramount.
The Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One trailer was screened last month at CinemCon in Las Vegas but has not been released to the public. Paramount, until now, has no idea how or where the trailer was leaked from, but the studio was quick to act and contain the situation. Many of the tweets with the video have been disabled and marked with “a report by the copyright owner.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Paramount Pictures does not appear to have officially released the two-minute spot online. Representatives for the studio did not immediately respond to multiple requests for comment.”
Description of the footage teased the Tom Cruise film as another stunt-filled action flick that included Cruise’s Ethan Hunt holding onto a plane as it flies over a South African canyon and a cliff jump in Norway. The stunts even terrified co-star Simon Pegg.
There has been times when movie trailers have been shortly followed-up by an official trailer release not too long after being leaked. It happened with Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Tom Cruise Returns to the Seventh Film in the Mission: Impossible franchise.
Tom Cruise returns to the seventh film in the Mission: Impossible franchise. It has been a long-running action property only to be rivaled currently by the Fast and Furious movies in terms of installments. Joining Cruise for Dead Reckoning Part One are Mission: Impossible veterans Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Henry Czerny, Rebecca Gerguson, Vanessa Kirby and Frederick Schmidt. Newcomers to the film are Shea Whigham, Rob Delaney, Charles Parnell, Indira Varma, Mark Gatiss , Cary Elwes and Esai Morales as the main villain. Marvel Studios stars Hayley Atwell and Pom Klementieff are also set to join the film.
Cruise has some big days coming up. Specifically this Memorial Weekend as his highly-anticipated Top Gun: Maverick is premiering Friday, May 27. The Top Gun sequel received a 5-minute standing ovation at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival and Tom Cruise was presented with an unexpected Palmes d’Or. Perhaps, the official trailer for Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One will be released this Friday when Top Gun: Maverick premieres in theaters.
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One is set to debut July 14, 2023. The first six Mission: Impossible films are all available on Paramount+ streaming platform.
