(*7*)Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 will be the last in the franchise for frontman Tom Cruise, according to insiders on upcoming projects.
(*7*)Variety reports that the next 2 films in the long-running series are planned as a "farewell to Cruise's Ethan Hunt character" and the culmination of the 6 preceding Mission films.
(*7*)Cruise first appeared on the scene as Hunt in 8 and last appeared in Mission: (*XNUMX*) - Fallout in XNUMX. The franchise, which is famous for raising the stakes with each new installment, has grossed more than €XNUMX billion at the worldwide box office in its twenty-five years. -year of history.
(*7*)But the ongoing Covid-2 pandemic has had a huge impact on the progress of the next 7, and probably last, movies in the series. In the first month of the year, Paramount announced that it was delaying the release of Mission: Impossible 8 from September XNUMX to July XNUMX, XNUMX, which pushed the ETA of Mission: Impossible XNUMX to June XNUMX, XNUMX. one thousand twenty-four
(*7*)The recording of the first is now complete, for a whopping €XNUMX million, although Cruise wants to finish the recording of the eighth film already before the release of the seventh, according to a source cited in the report. from Variety.
(*7*)Mission: (*8*) 7 will end up on hold, with what seems like Cruise and franchise boss Christopher McQuarrie wanting to make sure the two projects see the light of day forever, and given the tumultuous production history surrounding the 2 movies, you can't. Blame them.
(*7*)Mission: Impossible 7 was supposed to start filming in Venice in February 7, but production stopped and restarted 7 (XNUMX!) different times due to Covid-XNUMX limitations of Italy changed monthly.
(*7*)There were also plans to shoot Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 simultaneously when possible, though the idea was scrapped in light of pandemic-induced roadblocks.
(*7*) The eighth installment is finally ready to go into production in South Africa, reports Variety.
Bigger and better
(Image credit: Paramount)(*7*)So what can fans of the last 2 movies expect (or so they lead us to believe) in the order of Tom Cruise as the reckless resident of Mission: (*8 *)?
(*7*)After the star scaled Dubai's Burj Khalifa without a harness in Ghost Protocol, grabbed onto the outside of an airplane in Rogue Nation, and jumped off the back of a plane twenty-five,000 feet in Fallout, it's Hard enough to imagine how much Cruise and his team could raise the stakes again.
(*7*)We have an idea of one of the stunts we're going to see in Mission: (*8*) 7, at least. In a XNUMX interview with Deadline, Cruise mentioned a sequence in which the actor rides a motorcycle over the edge of a ravine in Norway.
(*7*)"It's by far the most dangerous thing I've ever tried," Cruise conceded, adding that the stunt is one thing he's "wanted to do ever since." it was a little little.
(*7*)If that's more dangerous than holding your breath underwater for 6 8/XNUMX minutes, like Cruise did for Rogue Nation in XNUMX, fans of Mission: (*XNUMX*) agree congratulations next summer.