is about to go on his most impossible mission yet. Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning is now hitting theaters, promising to once again raise the bar for crazy stunts, immaculately choreographed action set-pieces, and a cast with enough charisma to fill the Grand Canyon.

This is intended as the eighth and final Mission: Impossible, concluding the labyrinthine spy saga that commenced back in 1996 with the Brian De Palma-directed original. As of writing, the franchise has grossed over $4 billion worldwide and this entry will surely add on another couple of hundred million bucks to that.

So, with Mission: Impossible wrapping up is Cruise hanging up his gallery of rubber masks and explosive gadgets for good? Well, while Ethan Hunt’s adventures might be over, it sounds like Cruise’s are just beginning. In an interview with THR, he’s made the eyebrow-raising claim that he plans to be cinematically leaping away from explosions forever, or at the very least when he’s over a hundred years old.

When Cruise was asked if he’d keep making M:I movies into his eighties, he clarified the situation: “Actually I’m going to make them into my hundreds. I will never stop. I will never stop doing action. I will never stop doing drama, comedy films. I’m excited”.

At the #MissionImpossible—The Final Reckoning premiere, Tom Cruise reveals he will keep making movies into his 100s pic.twitter.com/dZdzfEKnAf

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) May 18, 2025

So, how does Cruise plan to battle back against the steady hand of time and the aging process? Well, given that he looks this good at 62, he’s off to a great start, and Final Reckoning underlines that age hasn’t slowed him down one bit when it comes to action. Cruise’s healthcare, training, and medical regime is no doubt absolutely top of the line, but can he actually stop the clock?

One option – and one we’re already sure he’s accounted for – is having multiple extremely highly detailed laser scans of his body done. This should theoretically allow Tom Cruises of any age to appear in movies far into the future, aided by AI technology that can recreate his voice at various stages of his life.

Cruise could then motion capture his performances, giving digital performances indistinguishable from reality. We’ve already seen de-aging tech improve by leaps and bounds in blockbusters, and he’d be a prime candidate for it. Even so, continuing to do even that beyond the age of a hundred might be pushing it though by this time, it would be the 2060s, and we imagine AI tech would allow studios to “hire” an autonomous virtual Tom Cruise that could perform to his specifications in any way imaginable.

And heck, while we’re in sci-fi territory, maybe by that point Cruise can simply shed his decaying human form and upload his brain directly into some kind of immortal Cruise-bot, thus allowing him to walk the Earth as a digital ghost. Who knows, in tens of thousands of years, civilization could have fallen and all that’s left of our world is Tom Cruise, striding between the sun-blasted ruins of skyscrapers and impressing the weird bug-creatures that inherit the planet with his winning smile?

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