Paramount Pictures and Skydance have announced that they’re pushing back the eighth installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise by a year, and dropping Dead Reckoning – Part 2 from the title.
The shunt for the spy-franchise comes amidst a series of release date changes due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strikes. Mission: Impossible 8 shut down production so that Cruise and Co. could promote Dead Reckoning – Part 1 in July of this year, only for that to coincide with the start of the strike action.
It was yet another blow for the franchise following the perceived underperformance of the well-received seventh installment, which lost IMAX screens to the Barbenhimer phenomenon, on the way to earning $567.5 million at the worldwide box-office, down from Mission: Impossible – Fallout‘s series high $791 million takings.
No reason has been given for dropping Dead Reckoning – Part 2 for the eighth outing, with THR reporting that the Christopher McQuarrie-directed blockbuster will be given a new title expected to be announced at a later date.
Paramount have filled the slot vacated by M:I 8 with A Quiet Place: Day One, which moves from its original date of March 8, 2024. The reshuffle also means Ryan Reynolds-Krasinski starrer If has moved up a week to May 17, 2024, and an untitled Spongebob Squarepants movie left its May 23, 2025 and moved to Christmas 2025.
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In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan’s past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission – not even the lives of those he cares about most.
Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One sees Tom Cruise return as Ethan Hunt, alongside Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga, Henry Czerny, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Frederick Schmidt, Cary Elwes, Mark Gatiss, Indira Varma, and Rob Delaney.
