‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Cost $290 Million After COVID Costs Blew Budget Up; Fifth Most Expensive Movie Ever

Excuse me for being late to the party when it comes to the “Mission: Impossible 7” shitshow, reported by THR two evenings ago.

The gist of the story has to do with the constant delays M:I7 has had to endure due to the pandemic’s effect on global supply-chain, production workers and locations. The film started shooting in Italy on February 2020, but it had to stop and start production seven different times since then. Notice the location, Italy was the epicentre of the pandemic that very month.

In contrast, the most recent film in the series, 2018’s “Mission: Impossible — Fallout,” cost $190 million to make.

The end result is that M:I7 has been delayed to 2023 because the film ends on a cliff-hanger, and Tom Cruise wanted to finish making the 8th film before releasing the 7th. The plan is to have both films serve as a sendoff for Cruise’s Ethan Hunt character

The eighth film is about to go into production in South Africa.

With that $290 million budget on the seventh film, good luck making a heavy profit. As it stands, it is the fifth most expensive film of all-time, and rumors are it could go even higher to the $300 million range in the coming weeks. Yikes.

1 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides $379 million
2 Avengers: Age of Ultron $365 million
3 Avengers: Endgame $356 million
4 Avengers: Infinity War $325 million
5 Mission: Impossible 7 $290+ million

Of course, if you count inflation then you’d have “Titanic,” “Cleopatra,” “John Carter,” “Waterworld,” etc. up there as well.