Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One
Director Christopher McQuarrie returns to the chair for his third consecutive Mission Impossible film, subtitl edDead Reckoning Part I. There is a Part II which is due in 2025, though it may be renamed. Dead Reckoning is about an AI threat called the Entity that has become sentient and attracts the interest of countries who wish to control it. Ethan and his team set out to find and destroy it by accessing two keys which switch hands several times throughout the film. Dead Reckoning was about to begin production in Venice and when the shutdowns of 2020 occurred. It re-entered production several months later starting with the big motorcycle stunt and was one of the films to help establish COVID-19 filming protocols which helped establish industry norms for filming. Several times over the next several months filming was suspended when members of the crew tested positive for COVID-19. Filming wrapped in the fall of 2021. The release date was delayed by about two years from its o