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Mission: Impossible 7 set to restart production in September

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Due to the global health crisis, film and television production came to a halt across the world including the upcoming Christopher McQuarrie-directed sequels, Mission: Impossible 7 and Mission: Impossible 8. However, according to the first assistant director on Mission: Impossible 7, Tommy Gormley, production is hoping to restart this coming September following the publication of British Film […]

Simon Pegg says Benji Dunn will finally get his own character arc in Mission: Impossible 7 and 8

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Simon Pegg, who is known for playing IMF agent Benji Dunn in the Mission: Impossible franchise, says his character will finally be receiving his own individual story arc in the upcoming sequel. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Pegg revealed he is excited to return to filming the next Mission: Impossible instalments to see how […]

Esai Morales replaces Nicholas Hoult as the villain in Mission: Impossible sequels

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Writer/director Christopher McQuarrie has announced Nicholas Hoult has dropped out of the upcoming Mission: Impossible sequels due to a scheduling conflict and replaced by Esai Morales. Morales will be playing the villain in Mission: Impossible 7 and Mission: Impossible 8 – the role previously portrayed by X-Men star Nicholas Hoult. According to Deadline, Hoult had to drop out of the Mission: Impossible sequels due to […]

Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 have been delayed

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After facing the possibility of cancelling its planned shoot in Italy, Paramount has now decided to delay both Mission: Impossible 7 and Mission: Impossible 8. Director Christopher McQuarrie is returning to direct his third and fourth installments in the Mission: Impossible franchise with back-to-back productions and had already started filming prior to film sets shutting down around the […]

Mission: Impossible 7 may scrap Italy shoot

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As uncertainty over the future of several productions continues to grow in the wake of the health crisis, Variety has reported Mission: Impossible 7 may scrap its planned shoot in Italy. The Tom Cruise-led action film, with Christopher McQuirrie returning to direct his third Mission: Impossible film and the eighth installment of the franchise right after, was to have […]

Brian De Palma believes one Mission: Impossible movie was “enough” for the franchise

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The original director of the 1996 Mission: Impossible movie, Brian De Palma, doesn’t think the successful and highly popular action franchise needed sequels. In an interview with AP News, De Palma pointed out that making sequel after sequel earns a filmmaker money, but as a director whose career was built on original films, that was never his […]

Mission: Impossible – Fallout director explains his rewrites on Ghost Protocol

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Christopher McQuarrie, the director of Mission: Impossible – Fallout, has explained the reasoning behind this rewrites of Brad Bird’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. The hugely successful Mission: Impossible – Fallout wasn’t director Christopher McQuarrie’s first interaction with the franchise and neither was Rogue Nation,  which he also directed. McQuarrie was also brought in to rewrite […]

Tom Cruise shoots stunt sequences for Mission: Impossible 7 as filming resumes

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Mission: Impossible 7 may have halted production in Italy due to the Coronavirus outbreak, but cameras are rolling once again in the UK now and a batch of set photos have arrived online from the action sequel which offer a look at stars Tom Cruise and Rebecca Ferguson shooting some stunt sequences for the movie; […]

Simon Pegg on Mission: Impossible 7’s production hiatus in Italy

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With concerns about the coronavirus outbreak spreading around the world, many film and television projects and events have been affected in recent weeks including cancellations of major premieres in China and release date delays for No Time to Die and Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway. Additionally, the Christopher McQuarrie-directed Mission: Impossible 7 has also been affected by the […]

Mission: Impossible 7 production halted due to coronavirus

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Paramount has revealed production of the seventh instalment in the Mission: Impossible franchise has halted due to the Italian local government putting a stop to all public gatherings as a result of the rising number of cases of the coronavirus. According to Deadline, production on the Christoper McQuarrie-directed Mission: Impossible 7 would have lasted three-weeks in Venice before […]