The best Mission Impossible premiere pictures as celebs join Tom Cruise on red carpet

By William Mata and Lucy Harvey

Tom Cruise swapped the red carpet to climb onto the side of a parked plane at the star studded UK premiere for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

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The actor, who is back as Ethan Hunt for one last spy movie, was one of the first arrivals at the Leicester Square gala on Thursday night.

The space outside the Odeon cinema was turned into a mini film set with the plane (which Ethan is seen to hang from in the film’s trailer) sat on a patch of grass with hoarding providing a mountain backdrop. Cruise somewhat recreated the moment by climbing onto the wing and posing for photos.

The Final Reckoning is the eighth installment in the spy saga which began in 1995 and is based on the 1960s television series of the same name.

It was first seen on Wednesday night when it had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and received a seven minute standing ovation.

Read also: When is the Mission Impossible premiere and what have the reviews said?

Director Christopher McQuarrie was on the red carpet as were stars Simon Pegg, Hannah Waddingham, Hayley Atwell and Mark Gatiss.

There was also a surprising array of celebrities on the red carpet with Michael B Jordan, Dan Walker, Peter Andre, Alex Zane, Rod Stewart, and London mayor Sadiq Khan among those in attendance.

The film cost as much as $400m to make which means that it will need to become the highest grossing film of the series just to make a profit.

But if the film fails to break even it will not be due to a lack of effort from Cruise who has been effervescent in his promotion that has included meeting fans in Seoul and standing on top of the BFI Imax in London.

The star has also recalled a chance encounter at a London takeaway that ultimately led him to meeting Dustin Hoffman and securing a part in the critically acclaimed Rain Man.

Standing on top of the Imax, Cruise said in a video shared to Instagram: “London, UK, the whole world… We cannot wait to share Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning with you all. Now… light the fuse!"

Who is Tom Cruise?

Age: 62

Highest grossing films: Top Gun: Maverick ($1.5bn at the box office); Mission Impossible: Fallout ($791m); Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol ($694m); Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation ($691m)

Awards: Cruise has never won an Oscar but has three times been nominated - twice for Best Actor and once for Best Supporting Actor. He has won three Golden Globes

Relationships: Cruise has been married three times to Mimi Rogers (1987-1990) Nicole Kidman (1990-2001) and Katie Holmes (2006-2012). He was recently romantically linked to Ana De Armas but this has not been confirmed

Children: Three (Suri, 18, Bella, 31 and Connor, 29)

Religion: Cruise was an outspoken advocate for Scientology in the 1990s and early 2000s but has not widely spoken about it since 2008. It is believed his first wife Mimi Rogers introduced him to the movement