Norway says it's cool if Tom Cruise wants to come film a Mission: Impossible movie in it
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Good news for anyone who’s ever wanted to see Tom Cruise just absolutely destroy his body while jumping onto a fjord: Norway has announced that the Mission: Impossible franchise has been given a special exemption to the country’s normal coronavirus quarantine procedures. Specifically, the film’s cast and crew won’t have to undergo an extensive (and expensive) 10-day quarantine period before being allowed to film the 7th Mission: Impossible film in a couple of weeks.
Announcing the exemption, Norwegian officials stressed the importance of continuing to promote the country as a filming and tourism destination (once tourism is not quite such a virally dangerous concept, of course). Plus, hey: Free* phone call with Tom Cruise! “It’s a gorgeous country, I can’t wait to get back there,” the actor said in his call with the country’s Minister Of Culture, expressing the sort of boundless enthusiasm for the nation that Tom Cruise normally reserves for sunshine, tax returns, and everything, ever.
(*Except for the millions the country is distributing in filming subsidies, obviously.)
This will be the franchise’s second trip to the Scandinavian nation; the Ways of Nor previously popped up in Mission: Impossible—Fallout, where their scenic cliffs stood in for some geography in the film’s fictitious version of India. Of course, the intervening two years have added all sorts of complications for these kinds of international shoots, especially since Norway has had one of the more restrictive lockdowns in place to attempt to quell the spread of COVID-19. (With notable success, too; the country has logged only 25o or so deaths from the disease, total, and the rate of new cases has slowed to a crawl since May.)
As such, Cruise won’t be allowed to just run around all over the place, jumping on their couches, etc. The entire M:I team will be separated from the Norweigian public entirely; they’ll also have to undergo COVID-19 testing every 48 hours.
The 7th Mission: Impossible movie—subtitle pending—is currently scheduled for a November 2021 release.
18 Comments
Norway is always cool. It’s a climate thing.
Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër?
Wi hav the hërd immunity.
Bitten by moose does not qualify as herd immunity. 🙂
That movie made an excellent sequel to Cursed last night.
Slightly off topic but if it’s filled with Norwegians why is it not called ‘Norwegia’
It is called Norwegia … in Latin. Hence Norwegians.The etymology is debated but likely comes from “the way north” in either language, as well as the Norwegian name “Norge” or “Noreg” (spelling depends on if you speak Norwegian or Weird Norwegian).
Nor Way.
You could say Tom Cruise is…pinning for the fjords.
Pining.
Nah, he’s gotten big into Nordic landscape photography Pinterest boards lately.
He’s not pining he’s passed on. He has ceased to be. He’s expired and gone to meet his maker. Bereft of life he rests in peace. If you hadn’t nailed him to the perch he’d be pushing up the daisies.
Tom Cruise’s plumage doesn’t enter into it!
Too lazy to makeA decent rhyme about this news.Tom fell from a fjord,Doesn’t it bruise, Norwegian Cruise?
If make a good rhyme you could doNorwegian Norwegian would you?
Didn’t know Norway was in space now.
Norway has an impressive system of tunnels for vehicle traffic.I think that would be a great place to film a chase scene.
I wish to go to Norway..looks an amazing place