Your mission — should you choose to accept it — is to head to theaters on July 14, 2023 for the long-awaited (and Covid-delayed) seventh installment of Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible” film franchise.

“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” marks Cruise’s latest outing as Ethan Hunt, an agent of the Impossible Missions Force (Imf), who embarks on an operation which — as the title suggests — promises to be his most dangerous yet.

On Sunday, Cruise quite literally dropped in during a commercial break for the NFL on CBS to thank moviegoers for watching his other high-flying sequel, “Top Gun: Maverick,” in theaters over the summer. Before he backflipped out of an airplane, Cruise reminded viewers that he and filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie (who co-wrote “Maverick”) were hard at work on the “Mission: Impossible” movies in South Africa.

Then, on Monday morning, Paramount and Skydance released a nearly nine-minute video that made it clear...