EXCLUSIVE: How Mission: Impossible 7 near completion after a remarkable shoot from the world pandemic era, i can reveal that the plan to film the eighth edition of the consecutive franchise has been changed by Paramount.
Sources say this is simply a matter of a change in the release schedule. Star Tom Cruise will now be required for studio promotional tasks for Top Gun: Maverick before the planned release of the film on July 2, and will be out of action for a period. Once the film is released – hopefully in crowded cinemas in a post-Covid world – production in MI: 8 can start, which means that the gap shouldn’t be too impactful.
Deadline understands that the stories in the UK tabloids this weekend claiming Mission: Impossible 7 were interrupted by pandemic-related travel problems are false. As director Christopher McQuarrie posted on Instagram yesterday, the team has now ended a successful shoot in the Middle East and is traveling back to London to apply some “finishing touches” to the image.
Mission: Impossible 7 is on the calendar for November 19, 2021 and seems to be on the right track – a remarkable achievement considering the challenges of any film production, let alone one of this scale, now. Mission: Impossible 8 remains dated November 4, 2022.
Paramount declined to comment.
Here’s McQuarrie’s Instagram post from yesterday: