For more than 55 years, the Mission Impossible franchise has hard-wired fans for thrills. It all began way back to the 1960s, when a new kind of TV show brought James Bond-like adventure right into your house. For those from younger generations—or simply fans of all things Tom Cruise— MI is an adrenaline rush that can only be found at the movies, with the seventh and eighth films soon to be released. But no matter how big the stunts and explosions get, or how wildly the plots twist and turn, MI remains what it’s always been: the story of the Impossible Missions Force—a band of secret government agents scheming, battling and sacrificing everything for nothing less than the fate of the world. Cue the theme music… things are about to get very interesting.