Tom Cruise has found his successor for Mission Impossible! He wants this actor to ensure the sequel after The Final Reckoning

News culture Tom Cruise has found his successor for Mission Impossible! He wants this actor to ensure the sequel after The Final Reckoning

Again and again

If Mission Impossible places itself as the best competitor to the 007 saga, it is obviously in its theme – espionage – and the idiocy of its main protagonist, but also because the saga, too, begins to accuse a certain age: we are first of all talking about a television series started in 1966 all the same, before moving to the cinema in 1996. To do this, Tom Cruise was chosen, the American still playing the role of Ethan Hunt almost thirty years later.

We are still talking about a series of eight feature films, The Final Reckoning almost having the appearance of an end both in its title and in the pure logic: Tom Cruise will turn 63 next year when the film will be released… and even if the actor is still in great shape and likes to perform his own stuntsit seems logical to think of a successor. In fact, it is the actor himself who is seriously considering it.

Finding a new Ethan Hunt, the true mission impossible

So of course, nothing prevents Tom Cruise from doing another one or two films: if we take the example of other big names in action cinema like Stallone or Schwarzenegger, nothing is obviously impossible, especially since it still proves to be very “bankable” in the film industry. In any case, he is thinking about the future and according to the very renowned insider Jeff Sneider, whose comments were relayed by the reference The Hollywood Reporter, he would like to see Glen Powell succeed him.

Glen Powell is one of the new rising stars of American cinema. You've already seen him in the mega-hit Top Gun Maverickwhere he plays a head-to-head pilot alongside the hero played by… Tom Cruise. More recently, the actor was also featured in Twistersanother action blockbuster which had its small success. Would he make a good Ethan Hunt? Tom Cruise obviously seems to think so. For his part, Powell responded to the rumor, saying “that his mother would never let him do that” due to the number of cheeky stunts performed by Tom Cruise throughout the feature films. In any case, he didn't say no…

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