Mission: Impossible 7 just quietly changed its title on streaming

Mission: Impossible 7’s title will undergo a small yet important tweak when the blockbuster makes its Paramount+ debut.

Paramount Pictures released the seventh Mission: Impossible installment in theaters with the “Dead Reckoning Part One” subtitle back in July 2023. This reflected the Tom Cruise flick’s finale, which tees up Mission: Impossible 8.

However, director and co-screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie revealed shortly before Dead Reckoning Part One’s release that Cruise was uneasy about the two-part nature of the film’s story. As a result, the pair repeatedly revised Dead Reckoning Part One’s ending to downplay its cliffhanger elements.

This approach will now carry across to Mission: Impossible 7’s streaming release – specifically, what title the spy film arrives under.

Mission: Impossible 7 changes its title on streaming

Per Deadline, Mission: Impossible 7 will stream on Paramount+ retitled as simply “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning.” That’s right: without “Part One” tacked on the end.

It’s unclear whether this alteration applies to Mission: Impossible 7’s on-screen title, or simply to its listing on the Paramount+ interface. The former scenario seems the most likely, though.

What name Mission: Impossible 8 – no longer “Dead Reckoning Part Two” – will go by remains a mystery as well. Reports dating back at least as far as October 2023 suggested that Paramount and Skydance Media wanted to replace the sequel’s title, but there’s still no word of what the replacement will be.

Yet based on the franchise’s form, Mission: Impossible 8’s overhauled handle will consist of just two words. Three of the four most recent additions to the canon (Ghost Protocol, Rogue Nation, and Dead Reckoning) followed this convention. The one exception was 2018’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout.

Regardless of its title, the eighth Mission: Impossible entry is still expected to tie up all of Dead Reckoning’s unresolved plot threads. This includes the IMF’s fight against rogue AI, The Entity, and the bitter rivalry between Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and Gabriel (Esai Morales).

Will Mission Impossible 8 end the franchise?

That said, you shouldn’t necessarily expect Mission: Impossible 8 to conclude the wider franchise itself. While Paramount initially billed what was then Dead Reckoning Parts One and Two as Cruise’s final Mission: Impossible outing, the star himself has since suggested otherwise.

“Harrison Ford is a legend – I hope to be still going – I’ve got 20 years to catch up with him,” Cruise told the Sydney Morning Herald following the debut of Ford’s final Indiana Jones adventure in June 2023. “I hope to keep making Mission: Impossible films until I’m his age.”