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'Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation' Release Date, Plot Spoilers: Ethan Hunt Looking to Bring Down The Syndicate

Mercy Soriano Monday, March 30, 2015

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt hangs from the door of an Airbus taking off in a scene from 'Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation.' | PARAMOUNT

If the trailer is any indication, then we are in for another exciting ride with the upcoming release of "Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation," the fifth movie in the Mission Impossible franchise.

The latest edition of the Mission Impossible franchise will hit IMAX and other cinemas on July 31.

This time around, the IMF agency is under threat from the Syndicate, a near-legendary organization of assassins and rogue operatives who kill to order. The Syndicate is as highly skilled as the IMF and its members are out to destroy the IMF. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team face their most difficult, and probably last, mission to-date: to prove the Syndicate's existence and bring it down by any means.

Directed by Christopher McQuarrie ("Jack Reacher," "The Way of the Gun"), "Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation" also stars Jeremy Renner ("The Avengers," "Kill the Messenger"), Alec Baldwin ("The Departed, "30 Rock"), Simon Pegg ("Star Trek," "The World's End"), Ving Rhames ("Pulp Fiction," "Dawn of the Dead"), Simon McBurney ("The Last King of Scotland," "The Theory of Everything") and Rebecca Ferguson ("Hercules," "The Red Tent").

At the end of the trailer, we see Ethan Hunt (Cruise) hanging from the door of a giant Airbus A400M plane as it takes off. It could have easily been CGI'd, but that is not Cruise's style. Famous for doing his own stunts, including climbing the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai for "Mission Impossible-Ghost Protocol," Cruise told Yahoo Movies U.K. during an interview that the scene was a childhood dream come true.

"I knew I wanted to have an airplane sequence. I've been thinking about it for a long time," Cruise said. "As a kid, I remember flying on an airplane and thinking: 'What would it be like out on the wing or on the side of the airplane?!'"

It took eight takes and lots and lots of painstaking preparation to ensure both Cruise's safety and the perfect sequence was filmed.

"It's the most dangerous thing I've even done, to be honest," said Cruise.