Though the adventure in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One does leave its story open for its eventual conclusion, the movie itself is a pretty open-and-shut story. Providing the threads for Mission: Impossible 8 to pick up on next summer, we’re still not sure if characters like Simon Pegg’s Benji Dunn are safe from harm. While he can’t really reveal where his series mainstay is going, the Hot Fuzz star did discuss one talking point for the future: whether Dead Reckoning Part Two will be able to stand as its own film.
In an interview with Discussing Film, the longtime franchise vet discussed the process that ended up splitting Dead Reckoning into two halves of one Mission: Impossible story. As you can read below, the break between both movies isn’t an extreme cliffhanger, as it had the following balancing act in mind:
