The date that President Sloane sends to Admiral Neely, implying vast importance in the characters' lives, is May 22, 1996. This is also the release date of Mission: Impossible (1996).
Tom Cruise and Ving Rhames are the only actors who appear in every Mission Impossible film. Simon Pegg has appeared in every film since the third.
In October 2023, in addition to announcing that the film would be delayed nearly a year, Paramount also announced that the film would drop the "Dead Reckoning: Part Two" subtitle, but it will still be a direct sequel.