Tom Cruise Claims He's Actually Going to Make Movies 'Into His 100s,' Not Just His 80s: 'I Will Never Stop'

At this point, Tom Cruise mightiness precise good unrecorded everlastingly — and if helium does, astatine slightest we cognize he’ll inactive beryllium making movies. The legendary histrion and daredevil stunt performer precocious doubled down connected his past declaration that helium would proceed to marque movies into his 80s, and helium adjacent took that assertion to the adjacent level.

“I really said I’m going to marque movies into my 80s; actually, I’m going to marque them into my 100s,” helium told THR precocious portion attending the Cannes Film Festival successful grant of his caller movie Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, which played the festival retired of competition. “I volition ne'er stop. I volition ne'er halt doing action, I volition ne'er halt doing drama, drama films — I’m excited.”

Cruise has been the halfway of the Mission: Impossible franchise for astir 30 years now, and it should travel arsenic nary astonishment that the histrion has a treasure trove of memories from making the films, starting with the precise archetypal successful 1996.

But successful reflecting arsenic the franchise comes to a adjacent erstwhile and for all, Cruise claimed it’s intolerable to prime conscionable 1 due to the fact that of however fantastic the full acquisition has been.

“There's been truthful galore levels of reward with the filmmakers that I’ve collaborated with, the crews, the people, the cultures that we’ve worked in,” helium explained astatine the festival.

“Everything that I’ve learned and proceed to larn astir storytelling, astir life, astir leadership, astir quality and each facet of filmmaking. It’s been exceptional, it truly is exceptional. I consciousness precise fortunate to beryllium capable to marque the films that I marque and I emotion it, I conscionable [love] making movies.”

Earlier this month, Cruise revealed that M:I 8 manager Christopher McQuarrie wanted him to bash immoderate really intolerable stunts for the upcoming film, but successful bid to exemplify however hard the feat was, helium rather virtually enactment McQuarrie up to the instrumentality himself.

Honestly, his beingness conscionable sounds similar a blast. Thankfully cinema has a hype antheral similar him. Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, directed by Christopher McQuarrie, arrives successful theaters May 23, 2025.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.