

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, the seventh installment of the Tom Cruise franchise, will hit theaters on July 12, having recently been pushed up two days.

Rogue Nation bucked the trend slightly, with a runtime two minutes shorter than Ghost Protocol's, before hitting a then-series high with Fallout.

Mission: Impossible 3 was comparable, with a runtime of two hours and six minutes, while Ghost Protocol hopped up to two hours and 13 minutes. The first Mission: Impossible in 1996 had a runtime of one hour and 50 minutes - modest by 2023 standards - and climbed to two hours and four minutes for Mission: Impossible 2. The Mission: Impossible series has largely seen slowly increasing runtimes, following a larger Hollywood trend that has more and more blockbusters clocking in around two and a half hours. As recently as earlier this week, an unconfirmed but widely circulated tweet claimed that it would come in at two hours and 45 minutes, which is not the case. In recent weeks, rumors have begun to swirl about what that runtime could look like. The runtime of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One has been the subject of plenty of speculation, especially after Paramount Global president Bob Bakish commented in March that the movie is "a complete thrill ride," but was still "too long" at that point (via IndieWire). Director/co-writer Christopher McQuarrie confirmed earlier this week that he had locked picture on Dead Reckoning Part One via an Instagram post. IGN can exclusively reveal that Dead Reckoning Part One will clock in at two hours and 36 minutes without credits, pushing it just past 2018's Mission: Impossible Fallout, which had a runtime of two hours and 27 minutes.
