Tom Cruise Plans to Make ‘Mission: Impossible’ Movies Until He’s 80 — Like Harrison Ford and ‘Indiana Jones’

By Samantha Nungesser @samjnungesser
Published July 5, 2023, 11:59 a.m. ET

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Tom Cruise‘s need for speed isn’t slowing down any time soon. The actor, whose seventh Mission: Impossible film comes out this month, plans on making movies well into his eighties — much like industry vet Harrison Ford.

While speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald at the Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One premiere, Cruise, 61, revealed his hopes to follow in Ford’s footsteps.

“Harrison Ford is a legend; I hope to be still going. I’ve got 20 years to catch up with him,” he told the outlet. “I hope to keep making Mission: Impossible films until I’m his age.”

Like Cruise — who’s riding the waves of his success from 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick and two upcoming Mission: Impossible movies — Ford has been keeping busy. The soon-to-be 81-year-old actor recently starred in the Yellowstone prequel 1923, the Apple TV+ series Shrinking, and will officially enter the Marvel universe in Captain America: Brave New World. He also reprised his role as the iconic Indiana Jones in the fifth installment of the franchise, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny'
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“I probably enjoy making movies more now than I ever did,” Ford told People last month. “I don’t want to be young again. I was young, and now I enjoy being old.”

Ford, who tore a muscle in his shoulder on the second day of filming Indiana Jones, added, “You are certainly physically diminished by age but there are wonderful things about age — richness of experience, the full weight of all the time you’ve been spending getting to being old — and there’s a certain ease in it for me.”

Aside from learning that we may get at least two more decades of Cruise as Ethan Hunt, the star weighed in on importance of going to the movie theater as well as the debate surrounding Barbie and Oppenheimer — which are both set to release on the same date.

“I grew up seeing movies on the big screen,” Cruise told the Sydney Morning Herald. “That’s how I make them, and I like that experience; it’s immersive, and to have that as a community and an industry, it’s important. I still go the movies.”

He continued, “I want to see both Barbie and Oppenheimer. I’ll see them opening weekend. Friday I’ll see Oppenheimer first and then Barbie on Saturday.”

Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One premieres in theaters on July 12.