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 मिशन: इम्पॉसिबल (1996).
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.
The film was released one month before Tom Cruise's 63rd birthday. He was 33 when the first film released in 1996. In the film, Ethan Hunt's age is revealed to be 60.