Mission: Impossible 7 has been delayed to summer 2023
Various delays mean Tom Cruise hasn't had a film in theaters since 2018's Mission: Impossible—Fallout
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The task of seeing the newest Mission: Impossible movie has once again gotten a little impossibler, as Deadline reports that both currently-planned sequels to the Tom Cruise spy franchise have been pushed back on the release calendar.
For those keeping track at home, that’s Missions: Impossible 7 and 8, which have now been moved to 2023 and 2024, respectively, per an announcement today from Paramount Pictures and Skydance. This isn’t the first time either movie has been delayed, either; M:I 7 had been previously scheduled to debut in July 2021, November 2021, May 2022, and September 2022. (It’s currently sitting at July 14, 2023…for now.)
Although he’s been busy filming (mostly on this seventh film), star Tom Cruise has had a very quiet pandemic, release-wise; his other major feature sitting in post-production right now, Top Gun: Maverick, has similarly been bouncing around the schedule for the last few years in hopes of finding a palatable spot to land. It’s not entirely surprising, given that Cruise tends to make the sorts of big, literally explosive action movies that both seem to demand theatrical screenings, and big theatrical returns. But the point stands: He hasn’t had a movie in theaters since the last Mission: Impossible movie, 2018's Fallout, the longest gap in his filmography since the famously long lead-up to the release of Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut back in 1999.
Mission: Impossible 7 was directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who’s directed a decent chunk of Cruise’s cinematic output over the last few years. (He’s also handling Mission: Impossible 8, now set for a June 28, 2024 release date.) 7 will star Cruise and returning co-stars Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, and Rebecca Ferguson, with Hayley Atwell and Esai Morales also coming aboard the franchise.
Cruise made headlines last year after he launched into an expletive-laden lecture on the film’s set over reported failures by crew members to follow COVID-19 guidelines. (The film had already had its production shut down at least once due to outbreaks.)
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Did he scream at the Paramount execs who made the decision about how they’re responsible for the death of the industry if they don’t release it or does he only do that to underpaid staff who can’t argue back?
On the other hand, now that he has to wear a mask, it is easier for him to go out without people finding out how old he looks without all of that digital de-aging.
“…the sorts of big, literally explosive action movie…”
Now, when you say ‘literally’ here, do you mean that Tom Cruise moves are still filmed on relatively volatile silver nitrate filmstocks?
Or do you mean that the movies explode in some other literal way?
Or is this a reference to the way “the tape will self-destruct” in Mission Impossible movies (or at least they did the last time I paid attention to Mission Impossible)?
Or, do you not actually mean literally at all? You’re using literally rhetorically?
Literally explosive in that, it has lots of ‘splodey bits in it. But you knew that.
according to the recent updates to the dictionary, the figurative definition of literally is also literally the correct use of literally.hate to be a pedant, but you can’t be pedantic about this one anymore.
Pfft, you call that pedantic? If you were really being a pedant, you wouldn’t be treating the dictionary as a proscriptive document! Dictionaries are descriptive!
I can absolutely be pedantic about this one. The dictionary is knuckling under to idiots, and of course I realize this is how dictionaries work: they don’t invent words, but reflect usage. However, this one is my line in the sand. I’m simply not going to imitate morons just because they never bothered to figure out what certain words actually mean.
lol this literally rules.
For a guy who is all about being pedantic you both don’t understand the context OR the meaning of the word rhetorically which is actually an impressive failure of language as it turns out.Anyway when he said “literally explosive” he was referring to the fact that the film is filled with literal explosions. As in, they blow shit up. The series has lots of stuff blowing up.
So Agent Carter is part of the cast…interesting.
Yeah, no one cares. Any bets being placed yet on when the AVC loses its comment section aka Deadspin?
“Top Gun: Maverick, has similarly been bouncing around the schedule for the last few years in hopes of finding a palatable spot to land”Shouldn’t that be “circling the carrier for a couple of years after being waved off on multiple landing attempts”?
Peak Cruise would just buzz the tower.
I wish they’d bring back Maggie Q or Paula Patton. They were great
Ohmygosh!As I read the bit in the article about Ving Rhames et al reprising their roles, I thought to myself “I wish they’d bring back Maggie Q or Paula Patton”. My mind went to Maggie Q first, and then to Paula Patton. Specifically those two. And only those two. (Did they piss off Tom Cruise at some point, I wonder?)So SO weird seeing my exact words being displayed on screen in front of me when I didn’t write them. And in my exact same word order!
But what if this so-called ‘delay’ is just a clever ruse, and when our guard is down, the waiter peels off his face, and it’s actually Mission: Impossible 7, and it totally fooled us?!It’s unfortunate that we have to make our own entertainment now, because I think I’m bad at it.
They’re just going to keep making more Mission Impossible movies in the meantime, aren’t they? By the time 7 actually comes out, they’re going to announce that he’s died in an accident on Mission Impossible 10.
The sequel numbers will be all over the place!
Atwell should be the lead
That’s disappointing, as these movies just seem to keep getting better. I didn’t think they’d ever top the skyscraper scene in Ghost Protocol, but Fallout was that tense for almost the entire movie. I guess I’ll just have to watch Fallout again (and again) to get my Cruise and Ferguson fix.
But why? It’s not like movies are flooding cinemas. What’s Paramount afraid of?